Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 2 | Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better . |
| 3 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
| 4 | So Johnny had been afforded a glimpse of her own time , had he ? |
| 5 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 6 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 7 | To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off . |
| 8 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 9 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 10 | The chairman , wearing a fawn sports jacket , said he apologised if he had ‘ caused any offence ’ , but said he was annoyed because Mr Loveluck-Edwards had been reading a novel in court . |
| 11 | England had been given a pre-match boost by World Cup rivals Holland 's failure to beat group two leaders Norway in Rotterdam . |
| 12 | Matthew had been making a detailed fire-protection plan for the acres which Fairfax had wanted to replant or afforest . |
| 13 | Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off . |
| 14 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 15 | Fortunately Newley had been wearing a tie and belt . |
| 16 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 17 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |
| 18 | Mr Nagdi had been carrying a gun when he left for work yesterday but he did not get a chance to use it . |
| 19 | Rose , giving evidence , said Sweeney had been refused a drink at three pubs and left a fourth . |
| 20 | The independent republic of Honduras had been created a year previously , in 1838 , having once been part of Spanish America ; its fertile coastal plains surround a mountainous interior , rich in forests , and it just manages to have a 40-mile strip of southern coastline on the Pacific to complement its much longer Caribbean seaboard . |
| 21 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 22 | Among his opponents was Pinza , ridden by Gordon Richards , the most successful and ( more to the point ) most loved jockey in British Turf history , yet still trying to win the Derby after twenty-seven unavailing attempts : to add further spice to the occasion , the announcement had just been made that Richards had been awarded a knighthood , the first jockey to be so honoured . |
| 23 | Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe . |
| 24 | The COI also made it widely-known that the shy Blewitt had been made a Freeman of the City of London in recognition of Dunston-based DMB 's skills in tackling the restoration of the city 's Blackfriars Bridge . |
| 25 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 26 | MacLauchlan had been elected a fellow of the Geological Society in 1832 ( he read papers in 1833 and 1842 ) , and was acknowledged by W. D. Conybeare and G. B. Greenough [ qq.v. ] , both eminent geologists of the day . |
| 27 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 28 | But if Berowne had been seeking a moment for further confidences it had disappeared . |
| 29 | Newall had been staging a partial hunger strike — refusing all solid food — in protest at what his lawyer claimed were ‘ inhuman ’ conditions . |
| 30 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |