Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A low-loading trailer had been fixed up as a platform for the clergy who led the service and the singing . |
| 2 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 3 | Aurangzeb had been struck down with a fever , and it was believed that he was beyond recovery . |
| 4 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 5 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 6 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 7 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 8 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 9 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 10 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 11 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 12 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 13 | This was why , for the greater part of her education , she had been sent off to a small private boarding-school , where Harriet liked to feel that the company of contemporaries compensated for all that was lacking in her home environment . |
| 14 | A little boy had been sent off to a birthday party all dressed up in his best clothes and clutching a present for his school friend . |
| 15 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 16 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 17 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 18 | On April 8 it was reported that ANC peace talks with Inkatha , scheduled for the previous weekend , had been called off as a result of the ANC 's May 9 ultimatum to de Klerk . |
| 19 | In his opinion there was no doubt that Miss Ward 's head had been cut off with a single blow from a sharp instrument . |
| 20 | The words had been cut out of a newspaper . |
| 21 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 22 | Reduced to ten men after captain Eric Caldow had been stretchered off with a broken leg , Scotland had just defeated England , and the flamboyant Baxter , an irrepressible rogue in a dark blue jersey had scored both goals . |
| 23 | He went scurrying to the dusty shelves in the basement of the chemistry department at Stanford : the vital page had been chopped out by a razor blade . |
| 24 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |
| 25 | Part of the cathedral had been roped off as a theatre , a very Sussex touch . |
| 26 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |
| 27 | He had a really nice family — he had a very good relationship with his wife — he was very bright , he enjoyed life , he read a lot , he had been teaching up until a month before hospitalization , and he had the will to live … |
| 28 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 29 | It alleged that he had been fitted out with a secret transmitter on one of his missions to Lebanon , to pinpoint the exact location of the hostages and kidnappers . |
| 30 | Like the rest of the boat , the cabin had been fitted out to a high standard using top-quality materials . |