Example sentences of "had be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 2 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 3 | She said electrical sockets had been ripped out of walls . |
| 4 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 5 | Leeds and Cleckheaton had been cordoned off by troops to stop the crowds from getting in . |
| 6 | The court was told between 1968 and 1982 money had been syphoned out of syndicates as purported reinsurance premiums to overseas companies controlled by Mr Cameron-Webb . |
| 7 | They were on a promontory which had been built up with blocks of granite . |
| 8 | And this is not the only place in The Exile where Pound shows himself restive inside the image of himself that had been built up among initiates by his propaganda of fifteen years before , when he had taken over ‘ imagism ’ and championed Ford Madox Ford 's ideas about a diction for poetry that should be ‘ plain ’ and ‘ direct ’ . |
| 9 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 10 | The Kuwaiti government consistently denied that Palestinians had been singled out for arrest and punishment . |
| 11 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 12 | In the wake of the disturbances , union leaders alleged that one of the men arrested , the Scottish Militant leader and Glasgow councillor Tommy Sheridan , had been singled out by police for special treatment , and that the force had been heavy handed . |
| 13 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 14 | And when they had been hiding out in Tom Rooney 's house , they had still fallen into the roles of master and maid , and on board ship Patrick 's attitude , influenced by Tom 's warning , had been stand-offish . |
| 15 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
| 16 | The children stared ravenously at her dress as if it had been spun out of sugar . |
| 17 | There was the Bishop of Limerick defending the Easter Rising , a man who thirty years before had been speaking out against resistance to civil authority . |
| 18 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 19 | At Greshornish , their horses , says Boswell , ‘ had been sent around by road to meet us . |
| 20 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |
| 21 | The Pa. stood for Pennsylvania , and the machines had been sent over as part of the Marshall Plan to get Europe back on its feet and wearing nylons just like the Americans . |
| 22 | Following a distinguished career with the KGB , including sixteen years as a military attache in a succession of western countries , he was appointed as Deputy Director of UNACO after his predecessor had been sent back to Russia in disgrace for spying . |
| 23 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 24 | On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase . |
| 25 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 26 | Now Jenny had been sent off to Rome by her father . |
| 27 | By noon eighteen joists had been nailed into position against the roof-tree but they were short of nails and little Willie McGlashan had been sent off to Grandtully to order a load from Donald Stewart 's smithy . |
| 28 | It would have been better if Cuntona had n't equalised or if Bruce had been sent off for clothes-lining that turk on the half-way line . |
| 29 | On the other side of the House , Norman Tebbit and the rest of the rabid Right had been nodding along to Mr Kaufman . |
| 30 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |