Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The attitudes and assumptions I 'd grown up with had been razed to the ground , and a bold new society had risen in their place , a free-enterprise , demand-driven , flaunt-it-and-fuck-you society , dedicated to excellence and achievement . |
| 32 | Her house had been razed to the ground and her husband killed . |
| 33 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 34 | As her eyes adjusted to the muted light , Isabel saw that the walls had been limed to the height of a man , and that the windows were glazed , shutting off all sounds from outside . |
| 35 | The Mini was back in use and the Glory had been relegated to the garage until she ‘ had time to check it out with Mr Chan ’ . |
| 36 | The beggars had been sent to the caracol . |
| 37 | The master reported to the Board that a young woman named Annie H. had been sent to the workhouse immediately after her confinement by her mistress , Miss M. , of Woburn Road , and the clerk to the Board was directed to call the attention of the lady to the serious risk incurred by her in so doing . |
| 38 | His father , Robert Robinson , 58 , of Sidney Street , Saltcoats , claimed that an injection given to his son in hospital by a senior doctor killed him and if he had been sent to the neurosurgery unit at the Southern General in Glasgow he would have still been alive . |
| 39 | He had been sent to the school when a small child and had not heard from them since . |
| 40 | You know , Mrs Winkowski , girls will talk , and I suppose it was during one of Millie 's lonely periods while under the sisters that she confided in Annabel why she had been sent to the school . |
| 41 | The medical officer also said that the body of a friendless inmate , ‘ not belonging to this Union ’ , had been sent to the School of Anatomy at Cambridge ; the House Committee noted the fact without comment . |
| 42 | But Mr Stewart maintained the fault was with the plane and wrong signals had been sent to the flightdeck . |
| 43 | If the communication had been sent to the Paternoster Review , it had almost certainly been sent to other papers or journals , possibly to some of the nationals . |
| 44 | Then Nicu had been sent to the country 's second city , Sibiu , as leader of its Communist Party and de facto head of the local administration . |
| 45 | The first defendant learnt of this but also became aware that no copy of his report had been sent to the tribunal or was on the plaintiff 's file at the hospital . |
| 46 | After the catalogue had been sent to the printer , Sotheby 's asked the Oxford Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art to try thermoluminescent dating on two pieces . |
| 47 | ‘ A year later Hugh Butterworth , chief executive of Clark Whitehill , wrote to him saying that a copy of Mr Young 's will , which included names of most of the investors , had been sent to the Revenue without Clark Whitehill 's permission . ’ |
| 48 | After the items had been sent to the laboratory , Wickham suggested they congratulate themselves with a visit to one of the unprepossessing local pubs . |
| 49 | The security forces had been sent to the bank to escort Naim to a meeting with Khazen to discuss the bank 's refusal to advance money to pay for a contract to print 1,000,000 passports . |
| 50 | He would have had to herd with less congenial characters than gamblers if he had been sent to The Fleet or the Marshalsea . |
| 51 | They had been sent to the group as part of a fur " amnesty " sponsored by them . |
| 52 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours , Labour MP for Workington , claims that the leak inquiry , which followed publication of parts of the report in a special edition of the Observer , discovered that copy 26 had been sent to the paper 's owners , Lonrho . |
| 53 | The transaction would be completed two days later after the appropriate cable instructions had been transmitted to the correspondent banks . |
| 54 | , William Arthur Smith ( 1854–1924 ) , metalwork designer , was born at 6 Sussex Square , Paddington , London , 17 October 1854 , the eldest in the family of four sons and two daughters of William Benson ( 1816–1887 ) , who had been called to the bar , and his wife Elizabeth Soulsby , daughter of Thomas Smith of Colebrook Park , Tonbridge . |
| 55 | Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety . |
| 56 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
| 57 | Dexter assumed this happened just after Nicola had been called to the phone . |
| 58 | In the snow between Porretta and Bologna , where Nicholas had been called to the rescue , and Ansaldo her lover had died . |
| 59 | Coun Thomas said police had been called to the house numerous times . |
| 60 | A phone call made just before midnight to St Aldate 's Police Station had been relayed to the murder scene at Parson 's Pleasure : Mrs Marion Kemp , of 6 Cherwell Lodge , had reported that her husband , who had left for London early that morning , had still not arrived back home ; that such an occurrence was quite unprecedented , and that she was beginning ( had long begun ! ) to feel a little ( a whole lot ! ) worried about him . |