Example sentences of "and had been [prep] " 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 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 3 | For a long time now Luce had been a great admirer of Peter Sebastian 's work , and had been over the moon when she 'd been approached and offered this wonderful opportunity . |
| 4 | Fortunately for Quinn , Sam was a trained agent , and had been through her apprenticeship in stake-out duties , than which nothing is more boring . |
| 5 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 6 | Answers to questions about their fellow workers ' reactions when they heard the news of planned redundancies suggested a difference in attitude between some of those who were close to pension age and had been with the company for long periods and other workers . |
| 7 | She 'd accompanied Chicot on several sorties against Nazi occupation troops , and had been with the gang on a daring bank raid . |
| 8 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 9 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 10 | Given the previous level of set-net effort , however , the population was probably originally much larger , and had been on the decrease for many years , at least since the rapid expansion of set-net use in the mid 1970s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 13 | The agent , a good one , reported that the affair was n't quite as dramatic as first accounts had suggested and had been on a far smaller scale , but that students had definitely been involved and at least one of them appeared badly hurt . |
| 14 | Arthur Skyrne was 59 and had been on the dole for ten years when he joined Roseberry ; now he is site safety officer and one of the directors of the company . |
| 15 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 16 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 17 | He was 6 years old and had been at the school for three terms when the head , knowing that I was a neighbour and friend of Balbinder 's mother , invited me to go with Mrs Singh to a meeting with the educational psychologist . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | First she 'd learned that her grandmother , whom she adored , was dangerously ill , and had been at her bedside ever since . |
| 20 | Mr Jones said the NSA was fortunate in having Mr John Gittins and his family as hosts because they had been a pioneer of land improvement , while recognising the importance of conservation , and had been at the forefront in developing new commercial crossbred sheep which have proved a boon for Welsh farmers and their market awareness . |
| 21 | Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was drinking like a fish , and had been for weeks . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 27 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 28 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 29 | While there clearly was an ‘ objective ’ discontinuity of subject perspective between selective school mathematics and the practice of some segments , increasingly dominant within some countries , of university mathematics , and had been for some years , it again required interested actors , utilizing the climate of ‘ crisis ’ resulting from the campaign on teacher supply as a major resource , to enter various arenas in order to persuade others of the ‘ need ’ for change . |
| 30 | The powerful states of the time normally were empires , and had been for many centuries , though a few shadowy forerunners of the nation state could be seen by 1500 . |