Example sentences of "had been [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Zvi , Wine was an upstart — an interloper who had suddenly appeared in the community a year ago ( real name , Zvi had been told , was Benny Wineberg from Brighton ) , set up as a dentist , and by charging ludicrously low fees had been taking clients from Zvi . |
| 2 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 3 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 4 | Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so . |
| 5 | The European Court also decided in favour of two Spanish and British foreign language tutors at the University of Venice , who had been denied contracts of indefinite duration on the grounds that the posts were in the public service and that they were not Italians . |
| 6 | Servicemen 's wives in Langbaurgh widowed before 1973 had been denied allowances because of an oversight during budget cutbacks made to avoid charge-capping , the council said . |
| 7 | Two Norfolk men were recently jailed for siezing a youth they thought had been stealing bicycles . |
| 8 | ‘ ABSOLUTELY delighted ’ is how David Taylor , Manager of Telford Branch described his reaction on hearing that his Branch had been appointed bankers to the Princess Royal Hospital , due to become a NHS Trust on 1 April . |
| 9 | He looked the way he looked when he had been telling jokes and there were no more jokes to tell . |
| 10 | It need n't mean that Dostoevsky had been telling lies and is now telling the truth in the privacy of his own notebooks . |
| 11 | Lord Justice Waller said he was ‘ quite satisfied that the Judge had ample grounds to make him sure that the appellants had been telling lies ’ . |
| 12 | For months and months people had been telling nomes what to do . |
| 13 | He had been muttering vows of romantic love , rather sullen . |
| 14 | For the past week I had been learning lines in preparation for an appearance in a new play due to start rehearsing later that month , and I loathed interruptions . |
| 15 | Israel had been shelling targets in the area following the killing of three Israeli soldiers near Aramta on Oct. 29 [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 16 | However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire . |
| 17 | You could keep them a as long as it was a reasonable way from the street as you might say and , and were fortunate because our pigstys had been built years before and they were ooh , suitably fifty to sixty yards from the main road you see , but I used to laugh at that when we , when we were having these pigs killed . |
| 18 | Apart from The Guardian and the social work press , the content of the report was ignored — the stories had been written months ago . |
| 19 | These had been written weeks before . |
| 20 | As he entered the garden through the back.gate , Isobel got up from in front of a flower bed where she had been planting bulbs . |
| 21 | Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration . |
| 22 | John Mowlem believed that he descended from the de Moulhams who maintained Corfe Castle for several centuries and to whom had been granted lands near Godlingston . |
| 23 | Acting Navy Secretary Sean C. O'Keefe , Garrett 's successor , announced at a press conference on Sept. 24 that Williams and Gordon had been granted requests for early retirement , while Davis had been reassigned to another post . |
| 24 | Moreover , once health authorities had been granted powers to ‘ buy in ’ services , then the question of the accountability to local publics of their purchasing decisions was raised . |
| 25 | Over the years they had become friends of the family and had been granted privileges — one of which was limited entry to the Domain . |
| 26 | Thus , when the stone ramparts had been constructed years ago , there had been no mistress of Tracy Castle , and the pleasance had been abandoned and left outside the boundaries of the bailey . |
| 27 | The explosion detached the separate wings as if they had been plucked feathers . |
| 28 | Keith Atkinson , Darlington 's head of environmental health , said food outlets throughout the town had been sent letters telling them to register before April 3 . |
| 29 | A council spokesman said there was no question of applications being overlooked and all candidates had been sent letters explaining the situation . |
| 30 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |