Example sentences of "had [been] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a list of all bodies that had been positively identified to date . |
| 2 | He had been tentatively invited to dinner at Hampstead once or twice , but Dinah had not taken to him , except to mock and imitate him after he had gone . |
| 3 | Among those with motor neurone disease , five had been previously admitted to hospital with peptic ulcer in comparison with an expected number of 7.4 ( morbidity ration 0.68 , 95% confidence intervals : 0.2 to 1.6 ) . |
| 4 | The increasing judicial leniency shown to Sendero suspects had especially alienated the army from the judiciary , many of whose circuit judges had been habitually subjected to death threats by the guerrillas or were known to have accepted bribes from them . |
| 5 | Although Dowding 's administration had been narrowly returned to office in February 1989 [ see p. 36466 ] , its popularity continued to decline in the face of ongoing allegations concerning its financial competence and its relationship with beleaguered Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 6 | It had been almost razed to street level as the fire burnt all the wooden beams and the pews , but the lower hall was intact , water had seeped into the choir robing room and was spoiling the hymn books . |
| 7 | By the end of last year , when they had three of the children , he had been almost driven to distraction . |
| 8 | The priest had been summarily done to death . |
| 9 | This appealed to them as their grocery listing had been long ticked to exhaustion and their husbands were all unsympathetic pathetics . |