"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

The bill seemed to curl up as if it had been rolled and stuck into the end of a gun barrel.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

It had been fixed with a piece of blue paper and the upper right hand corner was missing.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It had been the first time people moved beyond their small planet into the huge solar system.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

It had been a long trip from the south back to their homes in the north.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

It had been built from what remained of a captured Union warship called the Merrimack.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

It had been a long concert. Yet the crowd kept calling for more.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

It was very long and when it was new it had been gray.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

It had been silent ever since and it should remain silent,too.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

But it had been made after days and nights of thought.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

And no one knew why it had been closed.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

It had been there even before Everett was born.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring North Korean nuclear sites, said it had been informed that its inspectors were being expelled.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14