Example sentences of "and had [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had tried once already to talk to Nicholas about it , and had been kicked on the ankle by le Grant . |
| 2 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 3 | For once the lawyer had concluded his business , having called upon both his own groom and Mrs Elswick to witness the document he had drawn up , and had been seen off the premises , Theda had gone back upstairs to find her employer in a state of near-collapse . |
| 4 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 5 | Sister Marcus said Mr Francis was rather poorly and had been moved from the Seriously Ill to the Dangerously Ill List . |
| 6 | For Miss Green , Lee 's appointment was perceived as an explicit threat simply because in the previous year , renewal of the Cassell Trust 's grant had not been easily secured and had been made on the understanding that the 1930 renewal was to extend only for a further and final two years . |
| 7 | Dwight Kronweiser had been born in nineteen forty-five , and had been named after the victorious Allied Commander in Europe , whom his parents , even then , foresaw as a future President of the United States , a new Ulysses S. Grant . |
| 8 | She was half naked and had been beaten about the head with a rock . |
| 9 | The wall clock had ‘ Glynn Books ’ lettered on its face and had been transferred to the kitchen from the shop in some major upheaval of the past . |
| 10 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 11 | It was covered in lettering and had been riveted to the trousers , as if Grandson Richard was some sort of machine . |
| 12 | An Abbey Life spokeswoman confirmed the letter was bona fide and had been sanctioned by the company 's head office in Bournemouth . |
| 13 | I had gone to visit the RSPB 's osprey reserve at Loch Garten , and had been struck by the symbolism of that site , where the birds flew free and the humans were , in effect , in a cage . |
| 14 | Arrested by the Germans in 1942 , he had saved his life by pretending to be mad and had been interned in the Saint-Anne asylum until the liberation . |
| 15 | It was covered in weeping pustules and had been isolated from the group . |
| 16 | He 'd suffered head injuries and had been stabbed in the neck . |
| 17 | Engraved with a crest and supported on a cylindrical stem , the eye-bath was made in London in 1818 and had been discovered in the collection of a West Yorkshire couple . |
| 18 | Loxford New Rectory was redbrick and had been built in the early sixties . |
| 19 | Robert Pemberton , used by Gloucester to seize Woodville land , had been one of Edward IV 's ushers of the chamber ( a post he was also to hold under Richard III ) and had been appointed by the queen as parker and warrener of Higham Ferrers ( Northants ) in 1468 . |
| 20 | He was a local man , born within ii myles of Stopporte " , and had been appointed by the Goldsmiths on 28th October 1534 . |
| 21 | Robert Pemberton , used by Gloucester to seize Woodville land , had been one of Edward IV 's ushers of the chamber ( a post he was also to hold under Richard III ) and had been appointed by the queen as parker and warrener of Higham Ferrers ( Northants ) in 1468 . |
| 22 | Mr Edwards was appalled at what could and had been done in the ‘ best interests of the children ’ . |
| 23 | L'Auberge expanded , necessitating the employment of Arnold , a young chef who took over most of the day-to-day running of the kitchen , and Olive , a restaurant manageress who , like almost all the waitresses , lived locally and had been trained on the job by George . |
| 24 | The War Crimes Bill , which provided a legal framework for the prosecution of suspected war criminals and had been rejected by the House of Lords in June 1990 [ see p. 37889 ] , was reintroduced in March 1991 and again effectively rejected by the Lords on April 26 . |
| 25 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 26 | For one thing , many of those who had opposed him had joined the Royalist army and had been killed in the war . |
| 27 | I did find out that Noël Compton-Burnett had been a fellow of King 's , and had been killed in the war . |
| 28 | Yoshida was a former diplomat of Anglophile inclinations ; he had firmly disapproved of the ascendancy of the military before and during the Pacific War and had been imprisoned in the latter part of the war . |
| 29 | The prime candidate for the job was General Henri Giraud , a courageous soldier who had opposed the armistice in 1940 and had been imprisoned by the Germans before escaping early in 1942 . |
| 30 | She tells us that she had studied scripture from childhood , and had been drawn to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation at the age of fifteen , in 1636 . |