Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them were those who were convinced that he had secretly been in league with the employers . |
| 2 | She certainly had not been able to learn to swim when the other children did ; in fact she had constantly been in trouble at school because she would invent any excuse to avoid even going near the swimming pool . |
| 3 | The remaining five had all been on suspension for about 12 months following an incident which resulted in police and internal disciplinary inquiries . |
| 4 | My mother and Marie Claire and Lili had all been at school together in Egypt . |
| 5 | His dreams had all been about home . |
| 6 | The remainder had all been in favour of killing her . |
| 7 | We had all been in Hawaii with Youth With A Mission ( YWAM ) taking part in the Crossroads Discipleship Training School , YWAM 's basic entry course for full time workers . |
| 8 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 9 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 10 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 11 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 12 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 13 | That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men . |
| 14 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 15 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 16 | At the age of fourteen he obtained a scholarship to Stowe School which had only been in existence six years . |
| 17 | J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build . |
| 18 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 19 | Psychiatry was new and had only been in practice since 1879 ; neuroses and psychoses were thought to be untreatable . |
| 20 | She had only been in office a fortnight when she gave a lecture on social services at the ICO . |
| 21 | Remy had only been in charge for a month and already he had a major scoop on his hands . |
| 22 | I had only been in prison eight days . |
| 23 | The boy , who had only been in care for a short while before the incident , is now in secure accommodation . |
| 24 | Patient E16 had only been in hospital once , three years before his terminal illness . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , Gail had n't realised that it was only because Mr Elder had only been in Hospital for so long , that he was overjoyed to see her and him wanting to kiss her was completely innocent . |
| 26 | In 1967 , when Mr Ceausescu had only been in power two years , he complained about the security forces taking unjustified measures against the people . |
| 27 | I 've got first hand experience of this , since the unit Epson provided for review had obviously been in use elsewhere before it got to me , and there was toner flying free from the part-used cartridge . |
| 28 | The Pontormo , a Mannerist masterpiece painted in 1537 , belonged to the late Chauncey Stillman and had long been on loan to the Frick collection in New York . |
| 29 | I had long been in favour of CVRs but like many other people I was very dissatisfied with the quality , particularly the clarity of the only really useful part of the recording — that from the area microphone on the first channel . |
| 30 | These sectors had long been in decline — reflecting the decline of the UK as a world economic power — so the people of these regions did not have the buying power to attract the new consumer goods industries . |