Example sentences of "[coord] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 2 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 3 | Whatever was or had been between Matthew and Jenny was not yet resolved , Sara realised from Jenny 's preoccupation with the man . |
| 4 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |
| 5 | This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture . |
| 6 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 7 | Anyone who 'd paid money for their dog , or did n't know where it had been , should take it to the god in Lāmri to be blessed and cured : and if anyone had been bitten recently , or had been in contact with the rabid dog , they too should see that god . |
| 8 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 9 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 10 | Or had been in the right . |
| 11 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 12 | ‘ All three were working for INCUBUS — or had been until recently . |
| 13 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 14 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 15 | For a long time now Luce had been a great admirer of Peter Sebastian 's work , and had been over the moon when she 'd been approached and offered this wonderful opportunity . |
| 16 | Fortunately for Quinn , Sam was a trained agent , and had been through her apprenticeship in stake-out duties , than which nothing is more boring . |
| 17 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 18 | Answers to questions about their fellow workers ' reactions when they heard the news of planned redundancies suggested a difference in attitude between some of those who were close to pension age and had been with the company for long periods and other workers . |
| 19 | She 'd accompanied Chicot on several sorties against Nazi occupation troops , and had been with the gang on a daring bank raid . |
| 20 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 21 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 22 | Given the previous level of set-net effort , however , the population was probably originally much larger , and had been on the decrease for many years , at least since the rapid expansion of set-net use in the mid 1970s . |
| 23 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 24 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 25 | The agent , a good one , reported that the affair was n't quite as dramatic as first accounts had suggested and had been on a far smaller scale , but that students had definitely been involved and at least one of them appeared badly hurt . |
| 26 | Arthur Skyrne was 59 and had been on the dole for ten years when he joined Roseberry ; now he is site safety officer and one of the directors of the company . |
| 27 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 28 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 29 | He was 6 years old and had been at the school for three terms when the head , knowing that I was a neighbour and friend of Balbinder 's mother , invited me to go with Mrs Singh to a meeting with the educational psychologist . |
| 30 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |