Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 2 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 3 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 4 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 5 | Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen . |
| 6 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 7 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 8 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 9 | They had been given special permission to land there , only a short distance from the state fairgrounds at Del Mar , where the 13th final will be held this weekend . |
| 10 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 11 | As an estimated 5.5 million Jaguar shares changed hands , Ford confirmed that it had been granted early approval by US regulatory authorities to begin building its stake , immediately prompting speculation that it had entered the market . |
| 12 | Since 1914 , it had been fortified high ground from which the Germans could overlook and bombard British positions . |
| 13 | In 1969 he had been made assistant secretary to the Diocesan Schools Commission , becoming principal secretary three years later , he also became a member of the Finance Commission , and then in 1972 Bishop Wheeler appointed him his personal private secretary at Bishop 's House . |
| 14 | Even though he had accepted general responsibility for his company 's operations , and would probably have agreed to print the books had the decision been referred to him , he could not be convicted unless he had been given specific notice of the offensive material . |
| 15 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 16 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 17 | When the Germans , who controlled Tangier through General Franco , demanded Klein 's arrest , Wharton-Tigar in 1943 had spirited Klein out to Gibraltar and from there on to the safety of England where he had been given British citizenship . |
| 18 | The panel also ruled that in relation to the convictions for accepting an illegal gratuity and for aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress , the evidence should be re-examined " witness by witness , line by line and item by item " , in order to determine whether any of it had been " tainted " by North 's televised testimony to congressional investigating committees in 1987 for which he had been granted limited immunity . |
| 19 | He had been appointed Military Attache to my father in 1917 after being badly wounded in France . |
| 20 | It was reported on Dec. 18 that the former president of the Senate , Alberto Borea Odria , who had been involved in the abortive coup of Nov. 13 [ see p. 39187 ] , had been granted safe conduct to travel to Costa Rica , where he had been offered diplomatic asylum . |