Example sentences of "street had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black Eagle Street had been swallowed completely , surviving only as the dray walk , where casks were loaded . |
| 2 | Six months after the house was finished and the specially commissioned green leather furniture from Hull of Wardour Street had been arranged , Mrs Pugin 's health proved unsuited to watery Wiltshire . |
| 3 | Minnie Robinson still sent the occasional line but now Wimpole Street had been sold and she no longer had the doings of all the Barretts to catalogue her letters were empty things and difficult to respond to . |
| 4 | As he fielded questions at a press conference in his Yeovil constituency about his terms for a coalition in the event of a hung Parliament or whether Downing Street had been given his telephone number , the instrument that could receive the crucial call was being hunted down by aides . |
| 5 | But the house in Gamut Street had been a place of miracles once . |
| 6 | Previously , 23 , Pelham Street had been a boutique with a mezzanine floor , two changing rooms and an office . |
| 7 | In the days when Carnaby Street had been the spiritual centre of swinging London , everyone went to the Green Room . |
| 8 | Coffin wondered if the inhabitants of Drake Towers , with their BMWs and Porsches , knew that the old Francis Drake Street had been a regular thieves ' kitchen . |
| 9 | A padlock on gates leading into the station from Eversholt Street had been cut in advance . |
| 10 | Baker Street had been inspected and its records checked . |
| 11 | Bond Street had been looked over and found wanting : the clothes not displayed as they should be , the new vendeuse lacking in charm . |
| 12 | The house in Mouncy Street had been such a place . |
| 13 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 14 | The house in Mouncy Street had been known in this casual society as a place to go . |