Example sentences of "had be [verb] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Wiseman was retiring and a High Council had been called to elect the next General . |
| 2 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 3 | Goodall had been invited to referee the First Division game between Tarbes and Brive . |
| 4 | Since then he had been trying to write the second book . |
| 5 | In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards . |
| 6 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 7 | When he returned , after a slightly longer period than on the two previous occasions , Elisa had been persuaded to have a second cup of coffee . |
| 8 | By this time Mozart had been commissioned to write the first opera for the carnival in Milan the following year . |