Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office said a list of 45 Britons who had visited the ranch recently and may still be there had been compiled with the help of U.S. immigration authorities and worried relatives . |
| 2 | Or perhaps her whole being had been flooded with the personality of the real , dead Walter , as she tried to reproduce his style , the dash of his personality , his iconoclastic irreverence . |
| 3 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 4 | On the day Lucy had been presented with the key of the Toyota , Margaret Telford had said , ‘ Now promise me you 'll never pick up hitch-hikers or strangers . |
| 5 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 6 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |
| 7 | The conference also discussed promoting " triangular trade " between eastern Europe and the CIS using third-party finance , in the hope that this would restore some of the trade between the Soviet Union and eastern Europe which had been lost with the transfer to hard-currency accounting in January 1991 [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 8 | If the all-provident mother of the hunter-gatherer societies had been lost with the coming of agriculture and weaning so that a divine substitute had had to be found in heaven in the shape of the mother-goddess , then eventually a real , human substitute had been found on earth in the person of the all-powerful emperor or king whose granaries could supply in reality what the opulent breasts of the divine mother promised in phantasy — namely , reassurance against oral anxiety and the fear of hunger . |
| 9 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 10 | The Afghan government claimed that Tanay 's action had been planned with the help of numerous accomplices . |
| 11 | The momentum towards European Union which had been gained with the agreement in December 1991 on the Maastricht Treaty and its signature in February 1992 [ see pp. 38657-59 ; 38785 ] was severely undermined by the Danish June 2 referendum result , opposing ratification of the Treaty . |
| 12 | At the Liverpool centre , his close acquaintances had included 1 girl who had attended the Canadian CF camp in 1990 and who had been colonised with the epidemic strain on her return . |
| 13 | Much of the harmonization of economic conditions had been secured with the agreement between the EC and the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) , of which Finland was a member , on a European Economic Area ( EEA — see p. 38931 ) . |
| 14 | Mr Kennedy said that no deal had been done with the Government other than on an understanding that today 's scheduled business should not be knocked out by allowing yesterday 's session to continue beyond lunchtime today . |
| 15 | They were derelict and neglected , full of old trees long past their prime while younger trees had been choked with the undergrowth . |
| 16 | Laing 's response to this extraordinary solidarity from a colleague , and in outrage at losing his money , had been to spend the night in the Jeddah branch falsifying the records to ‘ prove ’ that a much larger sum had been embezzled with the co-operation of Steve Pyle himself . |
| 17 | If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) . |
| 18 | She had spent the night in hospital and staff had found other food in the kitchen had been laced with the poison . |
| 19 | The ANC announced on Oct. 22 that a high-level meeting had been arranged with the leadership of Inkatha on an unspecified date . |
| 20 | He had been charged with the rape . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , this view was not shared by those who , through no fault of their own , had been charged with the task of guiding me through the mists of ignorance to the sunny uplands of clarity and understanding . |
| 22 | He had been charged with the distribution of documents harmful to national interests . |
| 23 | Judge Hart said Munn confessed all when interviewed by police but no-one else had been charged with the robbery . |
| 24 | ( Ver had been charged with the murder in 1984 but acquitted , a verdict which was overturned in 1986 after Corazon Aquino had come to power — see pp. 34297-98 ; 34489 ; 34872 . ) |
| 25 | Galliher , the defendant had been served with the writ in England . |
| 26 | Ms Davis said that by this time the girl 's mother had learned of her disappearance and was told that the child had been sighted with the defendant , who was ‘ well known in the area and well known to police ’ . |
| 27 | He argued that it could be implied that it had been given with the intention that it should be used to promote the policy and objects of the enabling act . |
| 28 | This magic had been happening while they had been closeted with the policeman discussing the prosaic and sordid details of the burglary . |
| 29 | The matches ceased with the advent of the Second World War but in the 1970's , Richard Beckwith , a local photographer whose father had been connected with the event , thought it would be a good idea to revive it . |
| 30 | The Batt family had been connected with the Club since 1907 when Tom Batt bought bonds . |