had been in a sentence

She had been up late the night before working on her account books .

He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much.

On occasion a strain that previously had been accessioned is lost.

He is still the accident-prone villain he had been in the Wacky Races and still owns the Mean Machine.

The acceleration was faster than analysts had been expecting.

Compelled, absolved , she had been given no choice.

His tone had been abrasive , challenging.

It replaced abrasive saws which had been used before.

Yes, we had been faithful, abjectly faithful to the God of Reason.

Her heart had been on her sleeve when Mandy had opened that door, and she felt utterly and abjectly humiliated.

Much of the case’s function had been absorbed into the ablative .

Within one week, rat abatement crews had been through the community twice.

That last kiss had been a mistake, an aberration .

He did what he had been told
I wish I had been a bird.

He had been there before.

I asked where he had been.

If only he had been there.

Many promises had been made.

He had been writing a letter.

He did what he had been told.

It seemed that he had been ill.

He looks as if he had been ill.

He looked as if he had been ill.

She said that she had been happy.

I wish I had been there with you.

She looked as if she had been ill.

His family had been wheat farmers.

He thought how foolish he had been.

I had been reading for an hour.

Eldad
Now some Pharisees who had been sent.

It seemed that he had been very happy.

I asked her if she had been to Mexico.

He, who had been lazy, failed his exam.

I felt as if my life had been shortened.

Until they came back, she had been busy.

He knew she had been busy since morning.

Icebergs had been grounded on the beach.

She had been very shy till she graduated.

He came early, as he had been asked to do.

I had been reading a book when he came in.

The man driving the car had been drinking.

They had been thumping the drum all along.

He smiled to think what a fool he had been.

I found a rare book I had been looking for.

I had been writing letters all that morning.

I had been waiting an hour when he appeared.

I awoke to find everything had been a dream.

I strongly suspected that he had been lying.

I had been reading a letter when he came in.

I found the key for which I had been looking.

It had been raining for week until yesterday.

He explained at length what had been decided.

The postmortem showed that she had been sled.

I wish he had been more careful when he spoke.

He gave no explanation why he had been absent.

He disclosed to me that he had been in prison.

Only then did he realize he had been deceived.

I had been reading for an hour when he came in.

If only she had been home when I called yesterday!Eldad
If he had been free, he would have gone fishing.

She had been sick for a week when I visited her.

He knew that she had been ill in bed for a week.

She died after she had been ill for a long time.

If I had been a bird, I could have flown to you.

She looks as if she had been ill for a long time.

We took it for granted that he had been punished.

We came to the conclusion that he had been right.

The barn door had been carelessly left unlatched.

They had been married for ten years by that time.

He was out of breath.

He had been running.

The murdered woman had been strangled with a belt.

She wished she had been born twenty years earlier.

She was indignant at the way she had been treated.

I read in the newspaper that he had been murdered.

I came to the conclusion that I had been deceived.

She looked as if she had been sick for a long time.

They had been saving money for the trip for a year.

It was said that he had been sick in hospital then.

We found out that he had been dead for three years.

He had been reading for two hours when she came in.

An offering of flowers had been placed at the grave.

She looked as if she had been sick in bed for years.

He had been a practitioner of Aikido for seven years.

He saw at a glance that his daughter had been crying.

He looks as if he had been ill for more than a month.

He said that he had been in California for ten years.

When he turned up, we had been waiting for two hours.

She was indignant at the way her son had been treated.

I had been in the army for a month when the war ended.

She saw at a glance that her daughter had been crying.

If only she had been home when I called yesterday.

Wolf
Michiko talks as if she had been to the Arctic herself.

The fruit had been chemically treated to kill bacteria.

The baby had been crying for an hour when she found it.

The hill looked bald after the trees had been cut down.

I thought it se that the petition had been turned down.

I had been reading a book for some time when he called.

The election of the village headman had been postponed.

He had been there for ten years before he came to Kyoto.

We were very shocked to learn that Calvin had been fired.

The bark of the tree had been all scratched up by a bear.

I had been staying in Boston before I came back to Japan.

We found an old skin that had been shed by a rattlesnake.

I found a lost cat for which its owner had been searching.

It rained yesterday after it had been dry for many months.

They had been in the States until the end of World War II.

I had been studying English for two hours when he came in.

She talks about Paris as if she had been there many times.

It rained yesterday after it had been dry for a long time.

She talked about Paris as if she had been there many times.

She searched for her granddaughter who had been taken away.

She behaves as if she had been brought up in a good family.

My grandmother had been sick for a week when I visited her.

His mother said that he had been ill in bed for five weeks.

I had been reading a book for about an hour when he came in.

He recalled that a collision had been avoided by sheer luck.

The newspaper headline announced that war had been declared.

My cousin had been sick in bed for a week when I visited him.

He was ignorant of the fact that the town had been destroyed.

The tree had been blown down by the typhoon of the day before.

If he had been a little more careful, he would have succeeded.

I asked Bill what the weather had been like during his travel.

I had been studying music in Boston before I returned to Japan.

I heard the news that there had been a big earthquake in Awaji.

She had been proposed to five times by the time she was twenty.

My mother had been cooking supper for two hours when I got home.

We had been waiting since morning, but he didn’t come after all.

When they had their first baby, they had been married for years.

The news report said that no one had been killed in the accident.

The distance he ran was much greater than had been expected.

mamat
Broken glass littered the floor where the window had been broken.

I explained to the host that I had been delayed by a traffic jam.

You shouldn’t have made such a remark even if you had been angry.

The woman’s blouse had been ripped off, but she managed to escape.

My son had been writing for several hours when I entered the room.

I had been studying mathematics about an hour, when I felt sleepy.

Good grief! I had no idea you had been placed in such a tight spot.

He went to the embassy to report that his passport had been stolen.

Though he had been in the hospital, he kept up with other students.

I read in the newspaper where contact with the plane had been lost.

The fishing boat that had been missing returned to its port safely.

The steak had been cooked a little too long, so it was quite chewy.

The cat had been hit by a car, and its guts were all over the road.

His head had been shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon.

He had been working on his novel for six months when we visited him.

We got bumped from our flight because the plane had been overbooked.

The little boy rubbed his arm where he had been hit with a baseball.

After the car had been waxed, it shone in the sunlight like a mirror.

She had been in the hospital for a week before her husband came back.

If the weather had been nice yesterday, we would have gone to the zoo.

She said that she had been prepared for the examination for three days.

If our advice had been acted upon, you would not have got into trouble.

Tom asked me how long my parents had been married before they separated.

He had been living in Nagano for seven years when his daughter was born.

The baseball player claimed that the pitcher had been aiming at his head.

The bird rejected its chicks after they had been handled by the children.

There was blood all over the ground where the two dogs had been fighting.

Gladys was in a rage when she found out someone had been opening her mail.

The news that the school had been burned down soon spread though the town.

We saw a cat that had been run over by a car.

It was really gross.

In the years he had worked so hard for equality, new laws had been passed.

It was not until I saw him laughing that I realized what a fool I had been.

If he had been a little more careful, the accident would have been avoided.

Her child had been seriously ill for a week before Dr.

Kim arrived.

I thought he had been killed, but actually as I learned later, he survived.

I thought he had been killed, but actually, as I learned later, he survived.

His wife found out he had been cheating on her, and asked him for a divorce.

The old man howled in rage when he found that his house had been broken into.

The old man erupted in anger when he discovered his car had been broken into.

I’m sorry that I had been viewing you as a liar until just a few minutes ago.

The victim’s legs had been crushed under the car and she was in obvious agony.

The President had been convinced since the Czech crisis that war was imminent.

Few, if any, Americans grasped the significance of what had been accomplished.

There was a sticky emission from the place where the tree branch had been cut.

A spokeswoman for the company denied they had been involved in any wrongdoing.

I had been in Tokyo only three days when I received news of my father’s death.

Closer examination revealed that the skull had been crushed by some heavy blow.

There was some sticky stuff coming out from where the tree branch had been cut.

When the police found her stolen purse, it had been emptied of all its contents.

The buildings had been weakened during the earthquake, and had to be demolished.

Numerous celebrities had been expected to testify during Michael Jackson’s trial.

The smell of smoke lingered in the air for hours after the fire had been put out.

We heard a loud bang and ran outside, where we saw there had been a car accident.

A thin stream of blood was trickling down his forehead from where he had been hit.

The news that her husband had been killed in an accident was a great shock to her.

It took him a while to really digest the news that he had been fired from his job.

We heard a loud bang, and ran outside, where we saw there had been a car accident.

He had been dry for almost a year, but he fell off the wagon around New Year’s Day.

He gasped in shock when the policeman told him his wife had been in a car accident.

Attendance had been falling off and such people as did come sat about indifferently.

The wine had been laced with some kind of poison and everyone at the party was dead.

Police believe the accident was avoidable if only the victims had been more careful.

The official informed Bob that his request for a parking permit had been rejected.

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My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked.

When I got to class there was a notice on the door saying the room had been changed.

He omitted any mention of his last job on his application because he had been fired.

The old woman fainted when she heard the news that her husband had been hit by a car.

A report in 1990 stated that 40% of Guatemala’s forest cover had been lost since 1960.

As soon as the meeting was over, I collared Smithy and asked him what had been decided.