Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two makeshift goal-posts had been erected using assorted lengths of strapped sugar cane , and she could hear a lively dispute about the penalty rules . |
| 2 | By December , when payment had been delayed using various excuses , Feigen began to get suspicious and sent letters directly to the museum . |
| 3 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 4 | The Chinese deputy Foreign Minister , Tian Zengpei , arrived in Moscow on Sept. 16 following visits to Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , where agreements had been signed establishing diplomatic relations , and acknowledging in all three cases that the PRC government was the only lawful government representing the whole of China . |
| 5 | Trade sanctions should be lifted once transitional arrangements had been agreed enabling all parties in South Africa to participate in negotiations . |
| 6 | Mr Davison , who had four children and lived at Dulverton Avenue in Swindon , had been reported missing two weeks earlier by his girlfriend . |
| 7 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |