Sentence examples for had been shelled from inspiring English sources
The minaret of the Othman mosque had been shelled.
But Misurata's port had been shelled repeatedly in previous weeks and mined at least twice.
They had come from Homs, where their house had been shelled.
There were reports that a clinic had been shelled, and possibly hit.
As soon as the unit entered Intisar, the men told me, it had been shelled.
At one point, an ambulance arrived with an elderly woman whose home had been shelled.
The Syrian Army had been shelling Anadan and villages nearby for about 72 hours without stopping.
Mr. Ladsous also corroborated assertions by insurgents that Syrian forces had been shelling the area.
They said that the army, which surrounded the town, had been shelling for days and all of Friday night.
Before Secretary Powell's visit, Hezbollah had been shelling Israel almost daily, evidently seeking to provoke Israel into a retaliatory attack against Syrian targets.
