Sentence examples for had been storm from inspiring English sources

He told Fry that it had been storm troopers, not Jews, who had hissed a Swedish film, heckling that had been blamed for causing the rioting.

According to the Grænlendinga saga ("Saga of the Greenlanders") in the Flateyjarbók ("Book of the Flat Islands"), considered by many scholars to be more reliable in some aspects than Eiríks saga rauða, Leif learned of the new land to the west from the Icelander Bjarni Herjólfsson, who had been storm-driven there en route to Greenland about 15 years earlier.

The jail had been stormed, and most of its 700 prisoners were still at large.

Audiences had been storming out of Ibsen's plays for the past decade.

He wants to play, and one Rams official said Faulk had been storming around all week like a caged lion.

Rowley & Co, whose Leicester works had been stormed by weavers in riots in 1885, built a factory on Saddington Road.

Elected to the first municipality of Paris, he took delivery of the keys of the Bastille when it had been stormed.

By that afternoon, the presidential palace had been stormed, Allende declared dead and Pinochet's military junta had announced that it was in charge.

Activists from Fatherland, the political party of the jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, said their offices had been stormed by armed men.

State news agency Sana said a "terrorist hideout" had been stormed by security forces.

The author of the Thebais says that when Olenus had been stormed, Oeneus received her as a prize.