Example sentences of "we had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 2 | When Aziru sent his Khabiris against us , finally , we had been under siege for three years . |
| 3 | I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … . |
| 4 | Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer . |
| 5 | When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender . |
| 6 | Mompesson , whose wife was among those to succumb , wrote that Eyam had become ‘ a Golgotha — a place of skulls ; and had there no been a small remnant of us left , we had been as Sodom and Gomorrah . |
| 7 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 8 | We had been at college together , always close , once a little in love . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 10 | We had been at Orange for a week and were having a kit inspection . |
| 11 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |
| 12 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |
| 13 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 14 | Er , we had been at legislation inspection of becoming an , a costly service in terms of gross expenditure , and therefore we need to look for savings from those areas where we actually spend money , erm , and the belief was , the policy thought was that as our own homes were subject to our own direct management , to inspection by members , to both internal and external audits , erm , they were therefore better inspected than the independent sector , certainly more widely inspected , and therefore the least risk , in terms of any reduction on registration inspection would apply in that area . |
| 15 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 16 | We had been on holiday in Scotland and I was doing the washing on the Monday when suddenly a huge black cloud seemed to descend — a mass of fear , anxiety and utter depression . ’ |
| 17 | At Canjuers we had been on the shooting range one afternoon , zeroing our FA-MASs on targets 200 metres away . |
| 18 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 19 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ We had been to Blackpool to do some Christmas shopping last month and everything was going so well , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
| 22 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 23 | Of course , we had been to London to visit Benjamin 's former betrothed , Johanna , a sweet girl whom he adored . |
| 24 | We had been to Euro Disney and had a toy gun for Matthew . |
| 25 | We had been outside the village of El Ouata — we would have been inside but for him . |
| 26 | ‘ We were going past a pet shop in Shrewsbury , where we had been before looking for George , when we decided to have another look around . |
| 27 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 28 | Simultaneously we had been in touch with Sir Hubert and had discovered that he did indeed give an interview to the representative in London and had spoken ‘ off the cuff ’ to quite an extent but not justifying the outright statement attributed to him . |
| 29 | But he was not discontented now : we had been in Fe– two days and he was airing his local knowledge to impress Flora , who had just arrived . |
| 30 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |