1.   There had been a dinner cooked, turkey or chicken with sausages, roast potatoes and stuffing.

2.   There had been no mention of Alice going out there to keep house for him.

3.   There was no one in the office -- they were all having lunch.

4.   Alan had had a very chequered past and had been to prison lots of times.

5.   When other people are finished and having fun is most likely the time when online students do their course work.

6.   She had previously benefitted from a credit and loan scheme, but had been unable to continue due to lack of funds.

7.   Jesu, if it was good enough for God, what have you got to carp about?

8.   The president himself ordered studies of the feasibility of tougher policies than had been been pursued under Truman against the Soviet bloc.