Sentence examples for had been standby from inspiring English sources

Three of the victims had been standby passengers and only made the flight due to others' cancelling their reservations.

Emergency services had been on standby as the giant aircraft came into land.

They had been on standby since the morning because of calls for a protest march that day.

The team had been on standby since November, and heard late on Boxing Day that a suitable donor had been found.

Colonel Khrunov had been a standby in March 1965 for Col. Aleksei A. Leonov, the Soviet astronaut who was the first man to walk in space.

The chunky black pump that had been the standby for everything from pants suits to summer minis was looking a little too chunky.

In another rare misstep, Gelb's press office last April arranged for Ruth Ann Swenson, the soprano who had been a standby of Met productions, to be interviewed by the Times in advance of her appearance in "Giulio Cesare".

A Cuban medical team had been on standby for weeks in Freetown to operate a new clinic in Port Loko but its opening was delayed after an unconnected NGO international pulled out the plan to manage it.

Harry Winks had been on standby to make to make his first Premier League start but the richly promising 20-year-old midfielder is now expected to be among the substitutes.

I spent the flight home in stunned silence, as I listened to Dad explain how the British embassy in Istanbul and local police had been on standby, ready to step in if things had turned nasty.

All of the extra servicemen had been on standby for such a contingency.