Example sentences of "had be [verb] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 2 | Poor had been trying to remove this panel in the control room when we appeared and was surrounded by contractors trying to get in to start redecoration . |
| 3 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 4 | At the next table , nothing had been said to counter this barrage . |
| 5 | She had been led to believe this was the case but a phone call from the office of Mr Ian Frost , regional director of Inntrepreneur , part of Grand Met , said the meeting would be in Tadcaster or Halifax . |
| 6 | An attempt had been made to sell this document to a Sunday newspaper , and Ashdown had secured a " gagging " injunction preventing mention of anything to do with the matter . |
| 7 | Kate , who enjoyed the ritual of eating as much as the food itself , had been known to find this irritating , also . |
| 8 | After a few initial displays of outraged incomprehension , Brian had been forced to accept this as a fact of life , explaining to his colleagues and superiors , with a wry smile , that Constance was a friend of his wife 's : his wife had a taste for the eccentric , since she was the daughter of a famous artist , and , oddly enough , believe it or not , Constance was a skilled silversmith . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , if I do , I 've chosen a pretty safe place to do it in , I think , ’ she responded tenderly , exploring the commanding contours of his face with fingers that had been aching to do this for months . |
| 10 | And he had been left to conduct this hearing on his own , secure that he would make the decision both Hotspur and she needed . |
| 11 | Alice then , all clean and brushed , and in a nice blouse with the small pink flowers and the neat round collar , walked out of the house and went next door , to No. 45 , as though she had been planning to do this all day . |
| 12 | One segment showed a whale-like troop carrier descending towards the world below , carrying one of the regiments of Imperial Guards which had been ordered to attend this conflict , years since in realtime . |
| 13 | A task she had to perform , a necessity ; an observer could have thought she had been ordered to do this , to sit on that step with her fingers pushing her flesh about over her face . |
| 14 | Only 30 per cent of the usual resources had been used to achieve this , and the entire harvest had been sold , he said . |
| 15 | Everything had been provided to make this room an attractive and restful setting for any guest . |
| 16 | Although he had been told to do this on some goddamned boring management course , the sergeant did it instinctively . |
| 17 | Although they had been told to counter this objection with the fact that this was a single instance or two of older machines and new machines could be serviced almost immediately , this did not altogether convince a potential customer and it was felt that many sales had been lost . |
| 18 | Fortunately her mother had been told to expect this and the reason for it was explained . |
| 19 | The Canadian Pacific , in both its western and its eastern guises , had been designed to alleviate this dependence , to keep Canadian grain on Canadian metals and shipped through Canadian ports . |
| 20 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |