Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Zambia aircraft accident investigation was the responsibility of the Director of Civil Aviation and the official who occupied that position had been appointed only the day before the accident occurred . |
| 2 | Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass . |
| 3 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 4 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 5 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 6 | She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls . |
| 7 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 8 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 9 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 10 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 11 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 12 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 13 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 14 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 15 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 16 | thank you and we see here that erm one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds had been claimed , that one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds thirteen had been received so the insurance cover had paid |
| 17 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 18 | As the south coast had been raided only a few years earlier , this action is understandable , and it also indicates a measure of political awareness among the peasant class . |
| 19 | His musical memory was so acute that he once confounded a friend of his father 's , the court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner , by insisting that Schachtner 's violin had been tuned exactly an eighth of a tone ( a tiny but noticeable fraction ) lower than Wolfgang 's own when he had last heard it — a fact that the astonished Schachtner was able to verify . |
| 20 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 21 | These were organic transplants which had been rejected yet the patient lived . |
| 22 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 23 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |
| 24 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 25 | Smith first came across the Academy 's prize problem ( Box B ) when browsing through their Comptes Rendus in February 1882 , though the problem had been posed almost a year earlier . |
| 26 | All the children had been rushed indoors the moment the trouble started . |
| 27 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 28 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
| 29 | The Allied line had been pushed forward an average of 823m/900yds and , at the farthest , near Langemarck , about 1.6km/1ml . |
| 30 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |