Example sentences of "had [been] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was close to cracking up now , these final revelations had been just too much for her , she could n't cope with them , not on top of everything else that had happened today . |
| 2 | It had been altogether too much to expect . |
| 3 | John Dunner , the head of the National Radiological Protection Board , in an aside , made the interesting suggestion that perhaps there had been altogether too much information available about nuclear energy , rather than too little , ready material to use , either uncomprehendingly or fully aware , to stoke up polemical fires . |
| 4 | Had been dead no more than an hour when he was found … |
| 5 | That sleeping peaceful beauty had been almost too much for her . |
| 6 | They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale . |
| 7 | It was in darkness , just as it had been when they had been there earlier that evening . |