Example sentences of "[coord] had [been] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lost everything and had been made a ‘ scapegoat ’ by the Government , said his solicitors . |
| 2 | Already , there had been a steady flow of Norman families into the country from England , but they were thinly spread and had been given no opportunity to make an impact on Scottish society and administration . |
| 3 | Mr Allan told the court Say had spent a normal and happy weekend with his wife before the incident and had been given no indication she was leaving him . |
| 4 | Clayton had visited Australia in 1988 and had been given a firm job offer by the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 5 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 6 | Yes , Jack had certainly cracked in the pro-am , and had been given a sharp reprimand by the tournament director , Oliver Moreton , no doubt much to the latter 's enjoyment . |
| 7 | He had been to Martin Finkelstein 's bar mitzvah and had been given a small white hat , which was still on his mantelpiece at home . |
| 8 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 9 | He was four years older than I was , and had been given the silver-spoon education that the son of a wealthy Edinburgh family was entitled to expect , I suppose . ’ |
| 10 | He had only been fifteen and had been given the four-ten , the so-called lady 's gun , which Rufus gathered had rather gone against the grain . |
| 11 | In January 1990 he had been replaced as chairman of the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) by Clayton Yeutter , and had been given the largely ceremonial title of general chairman . |
| 12 | It came about because , after an early night in the same bed as that slept in by the Prince , Dr Johnson , who had a cold and had been rendered a little deaf by it , ‘ spoke of Prince Charles being here , and asked Mrs Macdonald , ‘ Who was with him ? |
| 13 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 14 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 15 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 16 | He had served with distinction in the Great War and had been awarded the MC ; his lessons were marked by great thoroughness , and he was an early pioneer of audio-visual and Direct Method techniques of teaching French . |
| 17 | In addition , 20 of the worst asthmatic patients in the district , who had been identified mainly between 1978 and 1982 and had been offered the option of self admission , were all alive in 1992 . |
| 18 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 19 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |
| 20 | Coun Williams added officers had contacted the African National Congress ' London office for guidance and had been told the organisation would not welcome trade with the country while sanctions are still in place . |
| 21 | Of medium height , he was known as a dresser and had been tipped a couple of times for those best-dressed men lists . |
| 22 | Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league . |
| 23 | A beautiful Cirrhilabrus from Fiji which is yet to be named , but had been dubbed the ‘ Shimmering Parrot Wrasse ’ . |
| 24 | Mr Parfitt 's brother , Phil , confirmed that his wife had been worried by cancer scares — but had been given the all-clear . |