Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … . |
| 6 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 7 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had been told of the event and sent back ‘ a really beautiful letter , ’ says John . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not only had she failed to recapture her budgie , but she had been accused of stealing apples and brought disgrace upon the Pack ! |
| 15 | I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre . |
| 16 | ‘ not for the purpose of repining that they had been deprived of the important blessings of hearing and speech , but to manifest their love and gratitude to God for all those other things He permitted them to enjoy . ’ |
| 17 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 18 | The Melanisms seemed to have retreated into their dark corners again , but Fenella had the feeling that they were simply mustering their strength again ; they had been baulked of their prey and they had retired . |
| 19 | No attempt at organised march was made whatsoever , but by the time the Croats , both soldiers and civilians , had passed the road junction … leading to Bleiburg , they had been stripped of everything they possessed , including animals , carts , bicycles , food and personal belongings etc . |
| 20 | At Wharram Percy they had been rebuilt of perishable materials — wood , wattle , turf — in almost every generation , only later having substantial foundations . |
| 21 | In their new patriotism and hero-worship they were ready to undergo discipline and do hard work , two duties which in the past they had been accused of lacking . |
| 22 | They had been accused of deceiving the Department of Trade and Industry by claiming machine tools destined for Iraq had peaceful purposes when they were specifically designed to make fuses for shells . |
| 23 | They had been accused of involvement in a number of attacks on targets connected with European and US interests in Amman in 1990-91 . |
| 24 | However , within each word order condition subjects recalled more words from the passage when they had been informed of its title . |
| 25 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 26 | It had been cleared of papers ; the typewriter was covered and the chair pushed firmly into place . |
| 27 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 28 | Constructed in a hexagon shape , it had been built of logs , now darkened with age . |
| 29 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 30 | By the late 1960s , it had been stripped of its machinery and converted for other purposes . |