Example sentences of "had be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 2 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 3 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 4 | He had been taught the hard lesson that you eat where there is food , because food is sustenance and without it there is failure and collapse . |
| 5 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 6 | The men had been denied the agreed consultation period . |
| 7 | However , now that the papers had been reporting the recent news of her husband 's return from Australia — apparently determined to impress his name and tough personality on the City of London — it was obviously about time that she came to a decision about her future . |
| 8 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 9 | Continued tensions led in January 1989 to the establishment of a ‘ special form of administration ’ , in effect direct rule from Moscow , headed by Arkadii Vol'sky , who had been appointed the previous summer to represent the central government in the contested region . |
| 10 | Mohammed Sahnoun , a former Algerian permanent representative at the UN who in late April had been appointed the special representative in Somalia of the UN Secretary-General , arrived in Somalia on the weekend of May 9-10 . |
| 11 | His education was placed in the hands of a series of military tutors , and before the pathetic little boy was seven he had been appointed the youngest corporal in the Prussian Army and made to congratulate his father on his thirtieth birthday in full uniform . |
| 12 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 13 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 14 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 15 | The aim of the programme had been to divide the big farms into smaller plots and to redistribute the land to the workers , but it had bred uncertainty among landowners and entrepreneurs many of whom , unwilling to part with their property , had delayed investment . |
| 16 | The operation had been planned the previous day after close liaison with the local RUC Headquarters , and was to include a detailed search of the area using dogs and helicopters . |
| 17 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 18 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 19 | It announced on July 15 that an attempted coup had been foiled the previous night . |
| 20 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 21 | Once one valid parse had been obtained the parsing process could cease . |
| 22 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 23 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 24 | At the direction of his lance master , he had been patrolling the ancient forest of Haling Heart , south of Scaraby , for three seasons and had found no quests with which to occupy himself , never mind accrue funds for the order . |
| 25 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 26 | Top and Elton John lookalike pulls the crowds on the Omnibus stand ; centre Polygon 's editorial director Marion Sinclair left and publicist Kathryn Maclean were delighted to hear that Polygon had been named the 1993 Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year . |
| 27 | The Duke of Mar , unwelcome in Scotland following his much-criticised flight after ‘ The Fifteen ’ , was employed as a decoy , leaving Rome with a large retinue , by way of Florence , and by the time the imposture had been discovered the real Pretender had , on 8 February 1719 , himself left Rome undetected , the start of a journey which , had the stakes not been so high , would have belonged to the realm of farce . |
| 28 | Earlier , three policemen were killed and 25 people injured on Dec. 8 in an attack on a coach in Antalya , where two members of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) had been assassinated the previous week . |
| 29 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 30 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |