Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 2 | Hair Type : Short , grown out style which had been coloured at home . |
| 3 | From the document we learn that not only were pumps installed to drain the mines but a water-powered battery of stamps had been erected at Tilberthwaite . |
| 4 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 5 | Her father , a sailor from Shetland , had been lost at sea , and her mother had to bring her two young children up in desperate poverty until they went to the orphanage . |
| 6 | There was Davy Treffry and little Nick Polwhele who was only thirteen ; and Tom Rowe , whose father had been lost at sea three months before . |
| 7 | In Emmerson ( reported at [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 194 with Commentary ) the tape had been played at trial , and the question was whether the jury were entitled to be provided with a copy of it after retiring , so that they could hear again the all-important tone of voice of the officer conducting one of the interviews . |
| 8 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 9 | After the catch had been landed at East London , the curator of the small local museum , Miss Courtenay-Latimer , came down to look it over . |
| 10 | ELBC radio ( Monrovia ) said that he had been seen at Man in Côte d'Ivoire , landing aboard a Cessna light aircraft with relatives , en route for Burkina . |
| 11 | Besides , there was safety in the farm enclosure after the gates had been barred at night , whereas in the street below their apartment the way lay open in either direction , and presences palpitated unseen in the arches of the carriage doors under each house . |
| 12 | In December 1330 Edward wrote to David asking him to give effect to his father 's promise and restore Wake and Beaumont to their Scottish lands ; but the Scots prevaricated , and in the autumn of 1331 Edward 's policy towards Scotland hardened , influenced no doubt by the fact that the final payment of Bruce 's indemnity had been received at midsummer . |
| 13 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 14 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 15 | Forays had been made at night ; scaffolding had been torn down and a few workers employed in building Carewscourt had been killed . |
| 16 | An attempt had been made at strangulation . |
| 17 | But back came Colleges and after Rigby ( damaged ankle ) had been replaced at prop by Alan Kittle , Wyllie grabbed a loose ball 20 metres out and simply exploded through the visitors ' defence for what proved to be the clinching score , Thomson adding the two points . |
| 18 | During the third week of the Council , Archbishop Parente appealed to African bishops for support , criticizing them for turning against their old masters ( many had been trained at Propaganda Fide ) and siding with the northern Europeans . |
| 19 | They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form . |
| 20 | The nine set free had been detained at civilian and military sites ; some appeared to have Middle Eastern backgrounds . |
| 21 | Piotr Jaroszewicz , 83 , had been strangled at home near Warsaw after apparently being tortured . |
| 22 | Up until two years ago , he had been tutored at home . |
| 23 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 24 | One hundred and thirteen had been born at term and the others at a median gestational age of 32 weeks ( range 24–36 ) ; none of the latter had been discharged from their neonatal unit on additional inspired oxygen . |
| 25 | Carol had been born at Christmas twenty-seven years ago — how long ago it seemed . |
| 26 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 27 | She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea . |
| 28 | Previously funds were distributed by the head after he had asked faculty heads to submit their ‘ bids ’ on behalf of the departments in their faculty and these bids had been discussed at faculty heads ' meetings . |
| 29 | The joint council of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) member states and representatives of the European Communities held its third meeting in Kuwait on May 16 , and issued a statement noting that the EC 's proposed carbon tax [ see p. 38938 ] had been discussed at length , that GCC countries had expressed doubt as to its effectiveness in curbing emissions , and that negotiations on this topic would continue . |
| 30 | First , the appalling Beria had been arrested at pistol point in the Kremlin and executed as privily as his victims . |