Example sentences of "[pron] had be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 2 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 3 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 4 | I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) . |
| 5 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 6 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 7 | Here the buildings were disfigured almost beyond recognition ; some had fallen into the street while others leaned outwards , a hopeless thoroughfare of broken concrete , stones , weeds and pillaged furniture across which had been built a low barricade made of chairs , doors and broken tables . |
| 8 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 9 | They were beautiful , these Andalucían horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert . |
| 10 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 11 | She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap . |
| 12 | She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse . |
| 13 | On the brink of suicide himself when imprisoned for writing to a friend who had been called a counter-revolutionary , Liang Heng wonders , ‘ Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other ? |
| 14 | In Schmidt v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs the plaintiffs were Scientology students who had been given a limited leave to enter the country . |
| 15 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
| 16 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 17 | Next-door neighbour Jean Beveridge , who had been given a running commentary by armed police inside her home , revealed the gunman had been daring the police to shoot him . |
| 18 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 19 | She was a dignified octogenarian aristocrat who had been made an honorary Chief-Corporal in the Regiment since she had served with it in World War Two . |
| 20 | Gay men who had been shown a stiff cock in a public lavatory by a policeman , and were then promptly arrested for showing an interest , were n't slow to remind us that , thanks to Queen Victoria , lesbianism was not illegal . |
| 21 | In the same way , he has been able to shrug off his failure to retain Frankie Dettori , who had been offered a lucrative sum to ride the Manton horses for the owner . |
| 22 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 23 | Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ? |
| 24 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 25 | Two were ‘ career ’ users , one of opioids and one of speed ; one woman 's husband was a dealer ; two other women began to steal from their husband 's ‘ stash ’ without his knowledge ; two were unemployed ; and one had been left a small legacy just prior to his heroin use . |
| 26 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 27 | Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 28 | The half-uncial which was the basis of the Saxon book-hand , had originated in Ireland where , side by side with it , there had been evolved a condensed upright minuscule , used for ‘ glosses ’ ( or short commentaries and explanations inserted between the lines ) . |
| 29 | Deep inside her had been awakened a nameless , primitive fear that at first had ached away in the background , but slowly had grown more evident , more pronounced , like a stared-at , half-perceived figure in the shadowy corner of a bedroom . |
| 30 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |