Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pers pn] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 2 | Eleven of them had been treated previously with size 10 French plastic stents for a mean duration of 15 ( 2–36 ) months . |
| 3 | When the historian Asa Briggs examined their backgrounds he found that fifty-six of them had been university educated , forty at Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 4 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 5 | Three of them had been detained by UNIFIL , but the other three had seized the 14 hostages . |
| 6 | The three of us had been going to spend the evening together but Buffy had slipped off . |
| 7 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 8 | This was a potentially decisive arm in warfare , and some 50 of them had been transported to France in the greatest secrecy . |
| 9 | If 13 of them had been nasty , Tit for Tat would n't have won . |
| 10 | Prior to 1917 there had been two annual fairs ( iarmarki ) in the area , but only one of them had been revived in 1921 , with a quarter of its previous turnover . |
| 11 | One of them had been watching him recently . |
| 12 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 13 | One of them had been Keith Sutton , taking a break from editing the anti-Murdoch strike paper , the Wapping Post , in the office below . |
| 14 | There was a vacancy for a permanent inspector , for one of them had been promoted to be solicitor of customs , and Robert Fullerton was considered satisfactory by the customs commissioners . |
| 15 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 16 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
| 17 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 18 | There were ten brown , droplet pips arranged neatly around the central point — not one of them had been harmed or dislodged by the cut of the knife . |
| 19 | Especially as I found one of them had been sick in the spare room . |
| 20 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 21 | They were withdrawn almost immediately , but not before one of them had been sold to an unkown customer . |
| 22 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 23 | If any one of us had been touching a wall above ground we 'd have been part of the bloody architecture by now . ’ |
| 24 | It was the first time that one of us had been seriously ill . |
| 25 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 26 | The two of them had been virtually inseparable — periods of separation coinciding with the respective presences of boy-friends ; even though Sheila had left university abruptly in her second year , hating the academic competitiveness . |
| 27 | Sheila burst in late , breathless from a hilarious encounter between a raw young policeman and a group of women night cleaners picketing a building from which two of them had been sacked . |
| 28 | When the prisoners were moved , two of them had been in The Fleet for thirty years . |
| 29 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 30 | There were ten listed , and four of them had been checked off . |