Example sentences of "had been [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 2 | Christopher Knox , defending , said O'Brian had been just 100 yards from where nine men were killed in the Gulf War friendly fire blunder . |
| 3 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 4 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 5 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 6 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 7 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 8 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 9 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 10 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
| 11 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 12 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
| 13 | He had been up seventeen hours . |
| 14 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 15 | The mast had been up three months and Kaptan still had one week of his vacation left when Osvaldo made his move . |
| 16 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 17 | Although six per cent said they had , half said the difficulty had been over five years ago . |
| 18 | At the Jan. 8 round table meeting Peter Koch , who was responsible for disbanding the National Security Office ( and was subsequently dismissed on Jan. 12 ) , revealed that there had been over 85,000 Stasi employees , 25,000 of whom had already been dismissed ; all weapons would be impounded by the end of January . |
| 19 | Tony Harrison recounts a story about a meeting which is likely to become apocryphal : ‘ There had been over ten accidents in a year on one particular plant and a meeting was held to consider targets for the next year . |
| 20 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |
| 21 | The kings had been pretty poor specimens as ‘ sons ’ : they showed little enough of Yahweh 's family likeness , and there was a long-standing hope in Israel that one day God would bring into the world a messianic Son , a worthy ruler to sit on David 's throne . |
| 22 | Previous record books had been rather austere collections of lists , ’ he recalls . |
| 23 | Timesense told her it had been barely fifteen seconds . |
| 24 | It had been barely two years since she had opened it with the money her father had left her . |
| 25 | Although the two canoeists who were ashore had been barely 200 yards inland they had gathered sufficient information to confirm that LACs could land on the beach at Houlgate . |
| 26 | He had been dead five weeks . |
| 27 | He had been dead some time . ’ |
| 28 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 29 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 30 | The boy naturalist Charles Darwin could have shown him a thing or two about that , but Hume had been dead 40 years when Darwin enrolled in Hume 's university of Edinburgh . |