Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 2 | Mitra had been considered the leading rival to Ramos for Aquino 's endorsement . |
| 3 | Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better . |
| 4 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 5 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
| 6 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 7 | So Johnny had been afforded a glimpse of her own time , had he ? |
| 8 | Yassir Arafat and Kemal Jumblatt had been summoned the previous winter to Damascus , where they told Assad that they were winning the war and wished to move all the way into the Christian heartland . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Eva had been born the year of the Wall Street crash . |
| 11 | To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off . |
| 12 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 13 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 14 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
| 15 | England had been given a pre-match boost by World Cup rivals Holland 's failure to beat group two leaders Norway in Rotterdam . |
| 16 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 17 | Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off . |
| 18 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 19 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 20 | Louise Taylor , the girl in the picture that Duncan had been shown the night before , was now dressed in an ill-fitting cheap Russian dress . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One of those gentry was Viscount Fauconberg , who had married Mary , the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell , in the same year as Cromwell had been offered the crown ( 1657 ) and they occupied Sutton Court , a mansion in the Little Sutton area , south of Turnham Green . |
| 23 | Mr Finkelstein had been given the contract to paint the interior of the convent . |
| 24 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 25 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 26 | Rose , giving evidence , said Sweeney had been refused a drink at three pubs and left a fourth . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I retraced my steps to the square where Kennedy had been given the Freedom of the City ( an empty honour ) , and explored a network of narrow shopping streets . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Ruggiero Miletti had been killed the day before , on Monday morning , and yet the gang had waited until this morning to alert the family with a cruel message of hope ! |