Example sentences of "and had been [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ?
2 He had lost everything and had been made a ‘ scapegoat ’ by the Government , said his solicitors .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Clayton had visited Australia in 1988 and had been given a firm job offer by the Sydney Morning Herald .
6 Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy .
16 ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’
17 He had given up writing poetry and had been living the duplicitous life of a critic deciphering his own works , but when he fell in love with Howard 's wife Elizabeth his former self was reawakened and he ceased to believe in his own existence .
18 Latterly he had been involved in eel fishing and had been seeking a place to keep his eels alive and fresh .
19 His work on Sanday was to be taken up by a teacher who already lived there , and had been doing the job before Mr M was sent there .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 .
23 ‘ He had no convictions prior to this incident and had been driving a car since 1957 . ’
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Of medium height , he was known as a dresser and had been tipped a couple of times for those best-dressed men lists .
27 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 .
28 He was a bulky man and had been walking the streets and the sweat was running off him .
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