Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 2 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 3 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 5 | Gerald Ronson , the chief executive of the Heron Corporation , a privately owned property and petrol retailing company , had been convicted on one conspiracy charge , two false accounting charges and one theft charge , and was sentenced to one year 's imprisonment as well as being fined £5,000,000 — the largest fine ever imposed by an English court . |
| 6 | A woman accomplice , who had been hiding in one of the cubicles , came out and the two ran off , leaving the victim sprawled on the floor , said Acting Insp Smart . |
| 7 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 8 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 9 | The promises to cut taxes had been brushed to one side , but it was unlikely that the government would wish to fight the next election against a background of undertakings that would entail their actually being increased . |
| 10 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 11 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 12 | A meeting had been called at one of the local schools , another in a series of as yet fruitless attempts to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city rot . |
| 13 | A set of old , wooden steps had been cut into one side . |
| 14 | Once of the aircraft had been fitted with some new kit and a whip aerial had been mounted on one of its bomb doors . |
| 15 | Sentences containing all four pieces of information from a set were most frequently identified as having been heard before even when they had not , suggesting that the information from a related set of sentences had been integrated into one complex whole which was closest in form to a four-idea sentence . |
| 16 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 17 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 18 | And when Charlotte glanced up , she was astonished to see that the ceiling had been painted as one vast rolling cloudscape . |
| 19 | But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another . |
| 20 | The casualties had been isolated in one of the huts outside the walls . |
| 21 | The skin on her face had been scraped from one cheekbone . |
| 22 | It had been made at one of those long , heart-searching breakfast conversations over pancakes and imported Vermont maple syrup . |
| 23 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 24 | A telephone call reported a device had been placed on one of the SVR train-sets . |
| 25 | The case in question had been argued as one of relevance of evidence . |
| 26 | The delay had been caused by one set of papers going temporarily astray in the post . |
| 27 | M tuberculosis had been cultured from one of these . |
| 28 | Shevardnadze ( appointed in 1985 — see p. 33738 ) had been regarded as one of Gorbachev 's closest allies and personal friends in the leadership . |
| 29 | The carts had been moved to one side , and now slaves were attaching torches to the arched wooden frames . |
| 30 | To add a bit of spice to the proceedings a sketchy transition had been tacked on one end of the ramp and that was the main focus of attention , especially in the grown-ups group . |