Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 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 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The men had been denied the agreed consultation period . |
| 7 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 8 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Here the buildings were disfigured almost beyond recognition ; some had fallen into the street while others leaned outwards , a hopeless thoroughfare of broken concrete , stones , weeds and pillaged furniture across which had been built a low barricade made of chairs , doors and broken tables . |
| 13 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 14 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The afternoon had been declared a local holiday , as everyone knew , and it would be a fitting finale to the year 's thoroughbred racing programme at Assiniboia Downs . |
| 17 | Controversy surrounded the release in January 1991 of four Belgian hostages in Lebanon [ see p. 37977 ] , when it emerged that Walid Khaled , the spokesperson in Lebanon of the extremist Revolutionary Council of Fatah ( RCF ) who had helped negotiate their release , had been granted a three-month tourist visa on Jan. 11 , one day before the hostages ' release and at a time of great international tension because of the Gulf crisis . |
| 18 | He had never been stripped of his Bulgarian citizenship , and it was officially reported on June 12 that he had been granted a Bulgarian passport . |
| 19 | 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 . ) . |
| 20 | 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 . ) . |
| 21 | It announced on July 15 that an attempted coup had been foiled the previous night . |
| 22 | Once one valid parse had been obtained the parsing process could cease . |
| 23 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 24 | The year before , she and the Prince of Wales had been sent an unusual gift . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse . |
| 28 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 29 | If colonoscopy had been done the extensive nature of the disease might have been recognised and the patient would have entered the programme . |
| 30 | His tattoo had been done the previous winter by a Chinese man in Harlesden , who specialized in non-fade colours , fluorescents and airbrush fantasy . |