Example sentences of "and [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 2 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On that afternoon of Tuesday , 31 August , McQueen 's daughter served them tea ; she wore a print linen dress , and had been to Inverness for a year 's education in reading , writing , sewing , knotting , lace- and pastry-making . |
| 6 | Every Sunday on our way back from church , we 'd call on Mrs Wright , whose son was a Schools Inspector and had been to Cambridge . |
| 7 | He was drinking like a fish , and had been for weeks . |
| 8 | A recent divorce petition cited the fact that just about every wall , fitment and piece of furniture in the home was in a half-dismantled or half-done state and had been for years . |
| 9 | It was dark , and had been since mid-afternoon . |
| 10 | The necessity of constructing popular consent among the electorate was an important component of Conservative thought , and had been since extension of the franchise to sections of the urban working classes in 1867 . |
| 11 | Yet blind instinct told her that Rohan was her man , and had been since time began . |
| 12 | He had entered the police station in a storm of self-righteous protest and had been by turn hectoring , belligerent and spiteful . |
| 13 | The Wingti government also claimed that the army 's advance was largely unresisted and had been in response to the invitation of local chiefs . |
| 14 | The party had been the largest in parliament for most years until 1966 , and had been in government ( usually with the Social Democrats ) almost constantly until 1987 . |
| 15 | He had come from Bangladesh about three months previously and had been in school about two months . |
| 16 | Councillors , most of whom had strong local roots and had been in power for many years , came to believe they had a permanent mandate and readily resisted any challenge to their authority . |
| 17 | Though only 53 , he had been associated with the School for 44 years , having been a pupil at Greek Street , and had been in charge of Greek since 1938 . |
| 18 | Zabaleta , 39 , known in ETA as Waldo , had been involved with ETA since he was a teenager and had been in charge of its itinerant commandos since 1984 . |
| 19 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 20 | The defendant had been a director of plaintiffs for 13 years and had been in charge of the development and sales of a certain type of heater . |
| 21 | President Taya had followed up a July 29 amnesty for state security and press law offenders with a further amnesty , announced on Aug. 18 , for people who had been sentenced in their absence and had been in exile for over 15 years . |
| 22 | Among the most prominent of Syrian political prisoners was Noureddin al-Atasi , who had immediately preceded Assad as President and had been in prison since 1970 . |
| 23 | Individual country quotas had last been agreed in Geneva on July 26-27 , 1990 , immediately prior to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait [ see p. 37632 ] , and had been in disuse since then . |