Example sentences of "[ex0] had [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him . |
| 2 | Although she was reasonably sure that Harry was still in love with her , she was concerned at all the talk there had been about him marrying the American girl . |
| 3 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |
| 4 | Maxine confessed that there had been times when she had thought she might be going mad , so great was her horror of water . |
| 5 | There was a dawdle in its pace , and there had been times when it had halted completely , other times when it had slowed to a crawl . |
| 6 | He had kept his word — although she knew there had been times when he was sorely tempted to ask her the questions that must have played on his mind . |
| 7 | There had been times when Cadfael had both departed and returned by night , without passing the gatehouse , on urgent matters in which he found justification for absence . |
| 8 | Certainly there had been times when he had started to caress her and then , with a certain boyish sweetness , had turned lovemaking into conversation , letting the moment pass . |
| 9 | There had been times when she had thought she would never be able to put herself back together . |
| 10 | She was n't cruel enough to tell him that there had been times when she had almost wished he had . |
| 11 | She had been getting though the days — and nights — without too many problems , and there had been times when she had almost felt happy . |
| 12 | There had been times when , feeling guilty about her lack of response , she had tried for Paul 's sake to show some enthusiasm . |
| 13 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 14 | A shadow crossed his face ; evidently , thought Karelius , what there had been between him and Louise Müller was not yet dead , and perhaps never would be . |
| 15 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
| 16 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 17 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 18 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 19 | The recollection was faintly depressing , making her realise how little useful or productive communication there had been between them . |
| 20 | Her threat to leave the job had been an idle one , and whatever ill feeling there had been between her and Jenny must have been papered over . |
| 21 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 22 | There had been for many years various organizations to co-ordinate Nonconformist work in both political and religious fields and the oldest bodies dated back to the previous century . |
| 23 | He said that every weekend until recently there had been at least three incursions , most of which he had intercepted . |
| 24 | A year before there had been at least six members of the Conservative Party better known than himself . |
| 25 | There were no major artists on Virgin whose sensibilities were likely to be offended as there had been at the Pistols ' previous stopovers ; no American parent company to interfere . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that there had been at least 350 murders in Haiti in the past year , Avril responded to the attack by claiming that emergency measures were necessary " to protect democratic accomplishments against terrorism " . |
| 27 | Coun Russell said there had been at least two deaths in bedsit fires in Chester in recent years . |
| 28 | I do n't know ho certainly I know there had been at least two peo different lots of people living in ours before we moved in , and I would think there were probably more than that . |
| 29 | There was no volte-face here as there had been on religion . |
| 30 | The two men already there had been on duty now for two hours . |