Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up .
2 Mrs Cath Thompson and Mrs Judy Robinson had been told senior officials from Grand Met , which owns 28 pubs in the Darlington area , would travel to the town to hear publicans ' grievances .
3 She told me a policewoman had been round and announced that Graham Mills had been found murdered .
4 Although Mr Braley had been made aware of the need for absolute secrecy , he had put the SFO 's investigation at risk .
5 On 14 October 1991 Mr. Butler had been found guilty of contempt of court by breaching the injunction granted on 12 September 1991 and was sentenced to four weeks in prison , the sentence being suspended for six months .
6 Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas .
7 The inquest heard there were no footpaths and Mr Hughes had been wearing dark clothing .
8 The next morning , after Sir Thomas had been discovered dead , Brampton 's corpse was found swinging from a beam up in the garret .
9 The Magistrate , for example , when told that Mrs Wright had been taken ill , showed no interest whatsoever , and when further informed , a little later , that she had given birth , observed dryly : " I 'm surprised that she had the energy . "
10 In October Bao had been hospitalized due to heart disease .
11 For three or four years now , Mrs Mandelbaum had been giving free English classes in her home .
12 Edwin Garland had been found dead by his niece at two o'clock on the Saturday .
13 In late August González had been granted extraordinary powers which gave him total control over central government , federal agency and state company finances and the administration of enterprises operating under the Public Works and Defence ministries .
14 In response to appeals by AI members last year , the Israeli authorities replied in April 1991 saying that ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin had been arrested due to his activities relating to his alleged involvement in the PFLP — printing and distributing PFLP leaflets .
15 By the end of 1989 El Salvador had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending , having accumulated arrears of $6,500,000 on loans of $110,000,000 from this body .
16 Captain Astorre had been paying small attention .
17 Di Leonardo 's personal secretary had issued a statement shortly after midday , a masterpiece of prolixity that took about five minutes to say that Ruggiero Miletti had been found dead and that another statement would be issued in due course .
18 Item — Lady Eleanor had been seen alive just before the service began by Dame Martha and Dame Elizabeth .
19 A statement by the Nigerian presidency on May 17 said that Siyad Barre had been given temporary asylum since no other African state had offered to accept him .
20 It subsequently emerged that Lady Essex had been administering debilitating potions to her husband and was implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , who knew too much about this .
21 Micky Banks had been shot dead on stage .
22 The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well .
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