Example sentences of "had be [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 2 | And I already had Jackie because Jackie had been speaking earlier on the tapes . |
| 3 | The question , which had been popped earlier on the stadium 's electronic scoreboard , got the thumbs up . |
| 4 | However , when the case was brought before the House of Lords in 1991 , Lord Bridge disagreed , concluding that the decision letter had been based entirely on the ‘ special circumstances of the case ’ and that , contrary to SAVE 's fears , no dangerous precedent would be set . |
| 5 | In a letter to the head of the air staff secretariat at Whitehall , the Killin team leader , Billy Stitt , said that the provision of helicopters had been based solely on the military requirement for crashed aircraft and the maritime role , with no account taken of the ever-growing number of people suffering serious injury on Scottish mountains . |
| 6 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 7 | She had been hit violently on the back of the head with a heavy weapon . |
| 8 | An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper . |
| 9 | On the left breast of his tunic the insignia of the Legion d'Honneur glimmered among a broad cluster of medals , and his plumed tricorn had been placed ostentatiously on a table at his side . |
| 10 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 11 | There was no sound or sign of life other than the scolding of blackbirds and the sudden dash of a startled fawn that had been grazing absorbedly on the fresh grass at the forest edge . |
| 12 | Government economic policies had led to an erosion of the previously relatively privileged economic position of the miners , who , as recently as June 1990 , had been mobilized successfully on the streets of Bucharest as an intimidating force behind Iliescu 's government and against opposition demonstrators [ see p. 37545 ] . |
| 13 | The waiter held out the straw hat which had been left behind on a chair . |
| 14 | Further questioning revealed that he was only able to sell the artefacts in Gibraltar because they had been found illegally on a site in Spain . |
| 15 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 16 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 17 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 18 | A couple of hours later , when he had been talking non-stop on the telephone , she was sitting in a chair half asleep . |
| 19 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 20 | As Philip 's summons had been issued only on the fragile authority of a single peace treaty , its validity had to be established by other means . |
| 21 | In December , 12 new proposals were submitted by members or by groups of countries , and GATT stated that by the end of 1989 a total of 14 proposals ( from 28 countries ) had been put forward on the question of standards and norms alone and nine ( from 23 countries ) on the question of enforcement of IPRs , while a large number of other proposals dealt with further important aspects of the negotiating brief . |
| 22 | He had been playing alone on the towpath , if anything as purposeless as hurling old beer cans into the canal could be described as playing , and she had paused to say good morning to him . |
| 23 | The defeat of the Labour Party for the second time in 1983 had been blamed largely on the media campaign which had glorified the Falklands , hammered Foot , and unleashed a campaign of unprecedented vitriol against Livingstone 's GLC and the ‘ Loony Left ’ . |