Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both knew that a loss had been suffered which had to be apportioned between them , but there is nothing to show that they had any idea , let alone conflicting ideas , of what the correct apportionment should be . |
| 2 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 3 | Prior to Miyazawa 's Korean visit fresh evidence had been uncovered which had caused public outrage both in Japan and elsewhere . |
| 4 | It was established that the camera had been working and a video tape had been made which had been viewed by the police officers in charge of the case . |
| 5 | Then they 're told he had 230 burglary convictions |
| 6 | I mean we we 're saying we had things down there in excess of three days . |
| 7 | He must have been wondering what had happened to his Sunday dinner , if they had such a thing in Joy 's house . |
| 8 | Your lord may even find it diverting , as well as enlightening , for he must have been wondering what had been laid on his doorstone . ’ |
| 9 | The walkers who had wangled the lift with him looked as if they had been told they had a week to live , suggesting the car conversation must have fulfilled my expectations . |
| 10 | They had been told they had NO chance of a refund after Tjolle declared himself bankrupt , even though he removed £400,000 from the company before it collapsed . |
| 11 | He had to wait until nine o'clock to telephone the garage , and he had been told they had no time that morning and would try to get down in the afternoon . |
| 12 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 13 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 14 | Cypriot authorities had been told he had been smuggled from the country . |
| 15 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 16 | On Weathertop we are told he had no such conscious and immoral thought . |
| 17 | It was as though a pain that had been worrying me had disappeared . |
| 18 | all the children are invited you had to take your own food there |
| 19 | London 's top toy store Hamley 's may find they are wishing they had listened to the hype . |
| 20 | And the other members of the staff who are joining us had better put in an appearance soon , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 21 | It was a view , noted the SRU 's chief executive , Bill Hogg , at Murrayfield yesterday , which Ian McGeechan fully endorsed — the Lions ' and Scotland coach contending that where they had not been proved they had not , as yet , been disproved . |
| 22 | For long before my camera had been stolen I had noticed the unhealthy reliance people had on photographs , and their ability to take them , to make sense of what they saw . |
| 23 | In summing up the workshop all agreed that there exists no coherent government strategy for community economic development in West Belfast , but that an incoherent piecemeal patchwork of programmes and initiatives had been introduced which had only a superficial effect on the area 's social and economic problems . |
| 24 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 25 | And if so why should it be supposed they had adventured into the forest rather than eastward towards the corn lands and the nearer towns , and the coast ? |
| 26 | Even when she was travelling she would be checking she had all the facts at her finger tips for her next assignment . |
| 27 | However , Schoenbaum points out the superficial level of social change pointing to the ‘ schizophrenia ’ of Nazi society — ; where it ‘ could be seen everything had changed and nothing had changed . ’ |
| 28 | There is no spider to be seen it had of course retreated to the darkest corner it could find again . |
| 29 | Having asked that she should not be disturbed she had taken the overdose in her room . |
| 30 | So I phone Automec to be told they had n't heard of Their product causing any such problem and as silicone is a lubricant , it would not have any adverse effect on rubber . |