Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was two more hours before they reached the barbed-wire perimeter that had been erected to stop the Germans breaking through . |
| 2 | Lawyers acting on behalf of the defendants had claimed that neither evidence nor witnesses had been presented to support the prosecution . |
| 3 | She was of course interested in his progress , but as he had already told them , a mother substitute had been appointed to give the child his direct physical care . |
| 4 | He had been appointed to manage the Laboratory and he would manage it in his own style . |
| 5 | Another , now familiar , name that appeared in the minutes was that of Dr. N. R. W. Wynn-Williams who had been appointed to assist the medical officer for Great Barford district . |
| 6 | Viktor Barannikov , who had been appointed to head the " super-ministry " , became director of the Russian Federal Security Agency , and Viktor Yerin was appointed Russian Interior Minister . |
| 7 | The Committee had been appointed to consider the Foreign Office only and , although they heard a considerable amount of evidence about rebuilding the War Department as part of the denigration of Pennethorne , they specifically excluded it from their Report . |
| 8 | Because twin gables flanking a central valley gutter had been adopted to cap the elevation of the 1922 extension , it was not possible to form an upper storey in this section . |
| 9 | A centre island had been built to divide the oncoming and ongoing traffic . |
| 10 | She gazed at the stubby brick lighthouse , which was over two hundred years old , and had been built to guide the fishing boats home safely to harbour . |
| 11 | In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast . |
| 12 | The vicarage had been built to match the church and the style of the rooms had not yet , and perhaps never would , become fashionable again . |
| 13 | It had been planned to take the aircraft up to 5,000ft and carry out some general handling checks , but I never got up that high , consequently I ended up doing a figure of eights over Duxford at 300ft . |
| 14 | It had been planned to hold the talks in Abuja , Nigeria on Oct. 28 and Nov. 7 under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity [ see p. 38323 ] . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 17 | This interview had been granted to set the record straight . |
| 18 | The only organized contingent were the men , who had been relegated to run the crèche in a nearby hall , set up each morning with military precision . |
| 19 | Typically , it had been Ivy , he 'd learned , who had been sent to collect the letter from Ruggiero which the gang had left in the rubbish skip . |
| 20 | In the breathless explanations that followed , apparently the WAAFs had been sent to relieve the airmen of manning the bombing quadrants but no action had been taken about withdrawing the RAF . |
| 21 | A letter had been sent to remind the authority . |
| 22 | The child had been sent to fetch the doctor for a sick neighbour , and was on her way home again . |
| 23 | British readers are likely to be particularly interested in the Pearl Harbor chapter , which backs up the story of Dusan Popov , a wartime double agent , that he had been sent to warn the Americans that the Japanese were planning to attack the naval base . |
| 24 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 25 | On Sept. 30 , 120 more monitors had been sent to cover the situation on the Hungarian border and in Bosnia-Hercegovina , bringing their total to 200 . |
| 26 | The suggestion was that as a youth Aly had been sent to learn the oriental technique of imsak with the result , according to a close friend , that ‘ No matter how many women Aly went with , he seldom reached climax himself . |
| 27 | FitzAlan could not have made his opinion of her clearer , and yet for an insane moment there , shaken by his reasoned judgements of Stephen and Matilda , she had been tempted to confess the truth and beg for his help . |
| 28 | Notwithstanding the two occasions on which he had been tempted to abandon the Army for politics , and the cordial relations he had maintained with the CEDA , Franco was disdainful and suspicious of politicians . |
| 29 | He had been tempted to use the President 's Land-Rover but the tracks would have shown . |
| 30 | General Wiseman was retiring and a High Council had been called to elect the next General . |