Example sentences of "had be [verb] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of people had been presented with an alternative and had decided according to an inner inspiration . |
| 2 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 3 | The radios of the 1940s being comparatively delicate valve affairs prone to water damage , radio contact had been lost with the forward Troops , so the Colonel walked boldly down the road to see the position for himself . |
| 4 | A total of 41 parties and coalitions had been registered with the Central Electoral Commission ( CEC ) by Sept. 13 . |
| 5 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 6 | Amid the protests to date , perhaps the most telling line has come from Newtownards woman Phyllis Bibby whose petition demanding urgent changes in the system had been meeting with a poor response . |
| 7 | She supplemented the once-weekly group sessions by finishing activities begun in the session with her class and she sometimes initiated a task for the whole class to do to reinforce what had been done with the advisory teacher . |
| 8 | The problem with the mixtures is that they have never been proved in the classical homoeopathic way , as had been done with the original remedies . |
| 9 | The maternal bond had been cut with the umbilical cord — at birth . |
| 10 | They had heard that Shill had been seen with a local man , Johnny Turner , at the King 's Head Monday lunchtime . |
| 11 | A total of 43 of the victims had been separated from their families in childhood by state authorities , all but two had left school before completing their secondary education , and 43 had been charged with a criminal offence by the age of 15 . |
| 12 | He had been charged with the attempted murder of John Pearson , a Downs Syndrome child . |
| 13 | At the same time , General Noriega had been flirting with the Soviet Union and , according to US intelligence sources , continues to receive arms from Moscow . |
| 14 | Vincent Piedboeuf , computer systems project leader for the international organisation , revealed that vital research into the disease had been halted when the computer became overloaded and crashed and said EORTC had been saddled with a gigantic phone bill . |
| 15 | She claimed she and the murdered girl had been drinking with the old man , and that he had killed her friend , but the old man was acquitted and McLachlan was sentenced to hang . |
| 16 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 17 | Another suggestion was that the electrolysis caused the liquid level to drop as more of the liquid turned into gas ; this exposed the top of the palladium above the liquid surface and gas began to leak out , releasing in a rush the considerable energy that had been stored with the trapped deuterium , sending the temperature up above the melting point ( 1554 degrees Celsius ) or even boiling at 3000 degrees . |
| 18 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 19 | In spite of this handful of ‘ collaborators ’ , it was nevertheless inevitable that the majority of those serving in the Imperial household should be drawn from among the families which had been connected with the First Empire . |
| 20 | A body did n't change if it had been blasted with an automatic weapon in a robbery on Lenox Square or gunned down on a sidewalk in Athens . |
| 21 | Although the worst had almost happened , namely he had been threatened with the same fate as Jesus , he did not falter from the task of planting the church in Jerusalem and then in regions beyond . |
| 22 | ‘ On July 12 Lord Young confirmed that tax agreements had been made with the Inland Revenue , and there had been an exchange of letters ‘ on terms satisfactory to BAe ’ . ’ |
| 23 | The buttons of her cardigan were correctly done up and the collar flattened neatly , the zip of the skirt was in its proper place at the side and her tattered bedroom slippers had been replaced with a tidy pair of court shoes , the wrong colour for the skirt . |
| 24 | Mr Major said the community charge , as he preferred to call it , had been replaced with a new property-based system which contained improvements that were never in the old rating system . |
| 25 | The Abbey Mill had been replaced with The Old Mill House ( number 2 in Millers Green ) in the late 18th century , an original millstone apparently surviving in the cellar to this day . |
| 26 | The Class 47 locomotive Society was formed in July 1983 and during 1988 the 47401 project had been formulated with the specific aim of preserving D1500 . |
| 27 | The big table had been covered with a checked table-cloth and set out tidily with cutlery and mats and glasses . |
| 28 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 29 | Jeanne had been living with the Communist Maquis since the disastrous parachute drop over two months ago . |
| 30 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |