Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been bred to regard the Jews as a people of the Book , who had suffered for their devotion to one God . |
| 2 | FitzAlan could not have made his opinion of her clearer , and yet for an insane moment there , shaken by his reasoned judgements of Stephen and Matilda , she had been tempted to confess the truth and beg for his help . |
| 3 | Similarly , Vera Brittain was finally converted to absolute pacifism — and rendered temporarily speechless — while listening to Christian pacifist speeches at a rally to which she had been invited to put the case for collective security . |
| 4 | She would be in Mountsorrel , where she had been told to leave the coach , by three . |
| 5 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 6 | Tavett grew annoyed when he realized she had already discussed it with the other two the previous evening as soon as she had been allowed to leave the police station . |
| 7 | Isabel watched him vanish beneath the barbican and felt as though she had been abandoned to face the enemy without weapons or protection . |
| 8 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 9 | It was almost as if they had been hired to give the tourist a suitable first impression of the Eternal City . |
| 10 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 11 | Official sources were yesterday unable to explain why the restrictions had been brought in , including whether they had been designed to reduce the risk of leaks to loyalists of the type recently coming to light . |
| 12 | It had been hoped to have the English version ready for publication by Easter this year but it had been delayed principally because of objections to the use ‘ inclusive language ’ . |
| 13 | It had been planned to hold the talks in Abuja , Nigeria on Oct. 28 and Nov. 7 under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity [ see p. 38323 ] . |
| 14 | It had been planned to take the aircraft up to 5,000ft and carry out some general handling checks , but I never got up that high , consequently I ended up doing a figure of eights over Duxford at 300ft . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 17 | It had been intended to number the main service 109B and 109W , for Blackfriars and Westminster respectively , as had been done in the case of the Wimbledon services , but there was a change in heart at the last minute and the buses were delivered with blinds numbered 109 only . |
| 18 | Peter Runciman , 64 , former executive chairman of Shanks & McEwan , said it had been decided to issue the profits warning to the stock exchange at a meeting of the company 's three-man executive committee on 5 September . |
| 19 | Neither side gave any details , apart from the fact that it had been decided to disregard the existing agreement and formulate a new one . |
| 20 | Although a Jordanian government statement issued on Sept. 23 said that there was no intention of expelling Saudi diplomats , a Foreign Ministry spokeman confirmed on Sept. 25 that it had been decided to recall the ambassador in protest against the expulsions . |
| 21 | In 1936 it had been decided to relay the Lytham Road track , despite considerable opposition in the Council . |
| 22 | It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime . |
| 23 | I complained mightily , only to be told that the stone table was a well-intentioned afterthought , erected in recent times , and that it had been removed to restore the henge to its original form . |
| 24 | Firstly , it had been postponed to allow the United Opposition of Trotsky , Zinoviev and Kamenev to be expelled from the Party before the Congress actually convened . |
| 25 | At the Washington talks it had been agreed to postpone the summit meeting between Gorbachev and President Bush scheduled for Feb. 11-13 . |
| 26 | British readers are likely to be particularly interested in the Pearl Harbor chapter , which backs up the story of Dusan Popov , a wartime double agent , that he had been sent to warn the Americans that the Japanese were planning to attack the naval base . |
| 27 | He had always banked on being good enough to play another Test match , even if he had been made to serve the full five-year ban . |
| 28 | Arkan said he had been elected to protect the Serbians in Kosovo from Albanian terrorists . |
| 29 | He had been invited to attend the Easter celebrations by the Orthodox Church . |
| 30 | He longed to touch them , even to see them again ; but made no effort , yet , to go back to the Asshe house , though he had been invited to play the pianoforte whenever he wished . |