Example sentences of "had be [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 2 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 3 | He had been taught the hard lesson that you eat where there is food , because food is sustenance and without it there is failure and collapse . |
| 4 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 5 | The men had been denied the agreed consultation period . |
| 6 | However , now that the papers had been reporting the recent news of her husband 's return from Australia — apparently determined to impress his name and tough personality on the City of London — it was obviously about time that she came to a decision about her future . |
| 7 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 8 | Continued tensions led in January 1989 to the establishment of a ‘ special form of administration ’ , in effect direct rule from Moscow , headed by Arkadii Vol'sky , who had been appointed the previous summer to represent the central government in the contested region . |
| 9 | Mohammed Sahnoun , a former Algerian permanent representative at the UN who in late April had been appointed the special representative in Somalia of the UN Secretary-General , arrived in Somalia on the weekend of May 9-10 . |
| 10 | His education was placed in the hands of a series of military tutors , and before the pathetic little boy was seven he had been appointed the youngest corporal in the Prussian Army and made to congratulate his father on his thirtieth birthday in full uniform . |
| 11 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 12 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 13 | The operation had been planned the previous day after close liaison with the local RUC Headquarters , and was to include a detailed search of the area using dogs and helicopters . |
| 14 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 15 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 16 | It announced on July 15 that an attempted coup had been foiled the previous night . |
| 17 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 18 | Once one valid parse had been obtained the parsing process could cease . |
| 19 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 20 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 21 | At the direction of his lance master , he had been patrolling the ancient forest of Haling Heart , south of Scaraby , for three seasons and had found no quests with which to occupy himself , never mind accrue funds for the order . |
| 22 | The Duke of Mar , unwelcome in Scotland following his much-criticised flight after ‘ The Fifteen ’ , was employed as a decoy , leaving Rome with a large retinue , by way of Florence , and by the time the imposture had been discovered the real Pretender had , on 8 February 1719 , himself left Rome undetected , the start of a journey which , had the stakes not been so high , would have belonged to the realm of farce . |
| 23 | Earlier , three policemen were killed and 25 people injured on Dec. 8 in an attack on a coach in Antalya , where two members of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) had been assassinated the previous week . |
| 24 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |
| 25 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 26 | If colonoscopy had been done the extensive nature of the disease might have been recognised and the patient would have entered the programme . |
| 27 | His tattoo had been done the previous winter by a Chinese man in Harlesden , who specialized in non-fade colours , fluorescents and airbrush fantasy . |
| 28 | For a while I had been ringing the Lost Property office at Queen Street station each week , still pathetically hoping that the bag with Uncle Rory 's poems and Darren Watt 's Möbius scarf would somehow miraculously turn up again . |
| 29 | Three navy helicopters had been searching the Manx coastline where the Gloucester had been moored , and where the two radio operators were last seen . |
| 30 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |