Example sentences of "[pron] had be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been warned of this , and was therefore able to take the extra engagements in my stride , and to enjoy the opportunity to visit varying institutions and talk to people of all positions on the academic scene . |
| 2 | It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something . |
| 3 | A few days earlier I had been thinking of calling my doctor to assess the chances of having my vasectomy reversed in order to save my marriage to Karen . |
| 4 | I had been thinking of having a War shortly , maybe in the next week or so , but with Eric probably going to make an appearance I had decided against it . |
| 5 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 6 | I had been dreaming of Cymbeline riding piggyback on my shoulders . |
| 7 | The sun I had been dreaming of was dark , and the real sun was nothing : nothing but what it was . |
| 8 | I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life . |
| 9 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 10 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 11 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 12 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 13 | Charles of France might shrink from fomenting a direct war , but he would be glad to use every oblique weapon against the upstart king who had deposed his son-in-law , and sent his little widowed daughter back in clumsy state , but without her dowry , which had been fed of necessity into King Henry 's treasury to keep it solvent during his first year of kingship . |
| 14 | In McEwan v. Fort William JJ. , November 18 , 1898 , a licensing court was ordained by the Court of Session to hear and determine , of new , an application for a certificate which had been disposed of out of its proper order . |
| 15 | British army counter-insurgency specialists helped train the Presidential Guard in the Philippines , which had been accused of torture and summary execution of opposition activists . |
| 16 | The Chinese Foreign Ministry , which had been informed of the change only two hours before Baker 's announcement , issued a guarded rebuke of the move on July 19 . |
| 17 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 18 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 19 | She had been deprived of him once before , six years ago , before she even knew she loved him , and then she had reacted with an endless rage that she had interpreted as hatred . |
| 20 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 21 | She had been thinking of the three men downstairs , though perhaps one could hardly count John as being in the running . |
| 22 | She had been thinking of Mark and she had felt cold and lonely , so lonely … |
| 23 | She had been thinking of Jennifer , but she had n't wanted to say as much in front of David . |
| 24 | She had been told of the event and sent back ‘ a really beautiful letter , ’ says John . |
| 25 | On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision . |
| 26 | As they had passed by Du Cane Road , where the entrance to Wormwood Scrubs prison was , she had been reminded of how many times she had been there , visiting either her husband or one of the older boys . |
| 27 | She had been reminded of a school outing , with the guide leading the party in a crocodile down man-made stairways protected by iron railings , stopping every few yards to bombard his audience with statistics or manipulate the complex lighting and communication system . |
| 28 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 29 | Not only had she failed to recapture her budgie , but she had been accused of stealing apples and brought disgrace upon the Pack ! |
| 30 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |