Example sentences of "that had be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 2 | Aubrey had been at his most affected , protesting volubly at the trick that had been played on him . |
| 3 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 4 | Balb c mice that had been maintained on a gluten free diet for many generations in order to overcome oral tolerance to gliadin , were primed subcutaneously with 0.1 ml of BCG , vaccine . |
| 5 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 6 | Thus the system would differentiate between a context independent unit for as in band and a unit that had been trained on just the instances of occurring in the context of such words as and or an . |
| 7 | These conclusions were consigned to the inside pages , since they did not fit the script that had been written on Scotland 's behalf . |
| 8 | Through a local human rights group , to whom copies of appeals had been sent , he got hold of photocopies of all the letters from around the world that had been written on his behalf . |
| 9 | It is curious , therefore , that he did not immediately exploit the worthwhile gains that had been made on the right . |
| 10 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 11 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 12 | Gordon went as a member of a party of 57 and presented his talk in an innovative way , starting with usual slide sequence with descriptions of the views , then for the second half showed a video that had been shot on the tour . |
| 13 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 14 | On July 16 the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the nature of a concrete platform that had been built on the disputed site , and on July 22 declared that it would refuse to adjudicate on the issue until all construction activities had ceased . |
| 15 | Immediately these men destroyed the houses that had been built on the land . |
| 16 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 17 | His eyes bulged in fury at the destruction that had been wreaked on his lab . |
| 18 | Mr Hyde also provided ACCOUNTANCY with a list of 18 KPMG , PKF and Haines Watts offices that had been listed on the system at one time or another . |
| 19 | There was Abdullah Ali , a businessman in exile , who was known to Rashid , and who had eaten in a restaurant in London with men he believed to be his friends , who had died in St Stephen 's Hospital of a rat poison that had been sprinkled on his food during a moment of inattention . |
| 20 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 21 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 22 | Yesterday evening I went through the village and along the road leading to the village that had been attacked on the evening of the 12th June . |
| 23 | Various offerings of Sake , branches and salt were made to the shrine that had been established on the site . |
| 24 | ‘ Toe-rag ! ’ he muttered , picking up the drink that had been standing on the glass above the labyrinth of numbers and wires . |
| 25 | On climate change [ see also p. 37291 ] , Resolution 44/207 recalled an earlier resolution ( 43/53 — see p. 36778 ) and noted the number of conferences that had been held on this issue in 1989 . |
| 26 | As he finished tying the cravat into an acceptable knot he saw that one of the cheese-knives had stuck to the table linen by virtue of the butter that had been left on it . |
| 27 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 28 | She recognised the stitching that had been used on the elephant . |
| 29 | Turkington made a further experiment in which he introduced the four clone types of white clover into pure swards of the four grass species that had been sown on soil sampled from the experimental field . |
| 30 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |