Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 2 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 3 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 4 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 5 | Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler . |
| 6 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 7 | He suggested this to a colleague , only to find it had been thought of before . |
| 8 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 9 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 10 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 11 | To the same effect was Rex v. Bland ( 1740 ) 7 Mod.Rep. 355 , and in 1794 in Rex v. Bishop of Ely , 5 Durn. & E. 475 Lord Kenyon C.J. regarded what had been said by Holt C.J. as settled law . |
| 12 | In the questionnaire a number of strategies were listed which had been cited by the teachers interviewed during its development , together with some included at the request of the LEA . |
| 13 | In the second case , the Law Lords reinstated a £12,000 damages award which had been cancelled by the Court of Appeal . |
| 14 | SNM leaders had not accepted an invitation to attend which had been extended by the USC 's interim government on May 26 . |
| 15 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 16 | On Feb. 14 Chiluba and UK Prime Minister John Major signed agreements rescheduling Zambia 's 1992 debt obligations to the UK and releasing £10,000,000 balance-of-payments support which had been suspended pending the implementation of economic reforms . |
| 17 | It was established that the camera had been working and a video tape had been made which had been viewed by the police officers in charge of the case . |
| 18 | They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up . |
| 19 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 20 | He replaced Ye Xuanping who had been elected to the largely honorific post of Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference in early April [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 21 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 22 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 23 | An outstanding example was provided by the GEC merger with English Electric in 1968 in which its promoter , Arnold Weinstock , firmly believed he had been helped by government support through the IRC . |
| 24 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 25 | He believed he had been booked in the corresponding match against Lithuania in Belfast last year — or possibly against Albania . |
| 26 | The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day . |
| 27 | MP Michael Clark would not confirm he had been threatened with the withdrawal of a Government trip to Canada if he did not vote with the Tories . |
| 28 | On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese . |
| 29 | And he also rejected claims by the policeman and a civilian that they witnessed a soldier being struck by other military personnel to make it appear he had been struck by the car . |
| 30 | To back the claim up one soldier was assaulted to make it appear he had been hit by the car . |