Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had be [verb] of " in BNC.
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1 | He suggested this to a colleague , only to find it had been thought of before . |
2 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
3 | Gqozo said he had been forewarned of a coup plot , and the two conspirators were stopped by a police road block as they attempted to enter the capital , Bisho , from the direction of Transkei . |
4 | He said he had been accused of ‘ asset stripping ’ as a prelude to the possibility of Darlington opting out after the next election . |
5 | He said he had been informed of Pascoe 's death but could make no statement about it . |
6 | The Welsh star was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
7 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
8 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend , Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |