Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 2 | Two pieces of steel had been fixed in vices and the two men had set to work on them simultaneously . |
| 3 | He was not lying when , in Wednesday 's rather pitiful TV interviews aimed at persuading his party not to dump him , he said he had been inundated with letters of support from the world of music , opera , theatre , films and sport . |
| 4 | Could I let them have the exact name of the coffin-manufacturers who had supplied me , as they had been inundated with calls asking for it and , having no success with the number supplied by Directory Enquiries , were needing further information . |
| 5 | He took the tube from a drawer , and when the desk-top had been cleared of papers the plans were spread open . |
| 6 | It had been cleared of papers ; the typewriter was covered and the chair pushed firmly into place . |
| 7 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 8 | Because every entrance had been blocked with trees . |
| 9 | Lucille , a Norman , had been raised on stories of the merciless English pirates who lived just across the Channel and who , for centuries , had raided her homeland to kill and burn and plunder . |
| 10 | Whether these children had been raised by wolves or simply abandoned and left to their own devices in the forest is unclear . |
| 11 | Megaw LJ 's argument depended on contrasting what would have happened if the auditors had been appointed as arbitrators . |
| 12 | And when eventually the colobus had been ripped into pieces , and the forest went quiet , he pointed out the way the chimps shared their spoils with their nearest relatives . |
| 13 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 14 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 15 | During the morning the accumulated household junk had been stacked in piles beside the steps . |
| 16 | Her ambitious trek to the distant city had been curtailed by protests from her overworked nervous system , crying for more of whatever the pink cans contained . |
| 17 | She lost her way ; new fiats had been built across roads marked in the A to Z , and it was difficult to find anyone who had heard of Leominster Gardens . |
| 18 | Unlike its smaller , sea-going companion however , it had been built on blocks . |
| 19 | And if that was you know you could , I supp , you could argue that the French revolution had been built on notions of liberalism and it had encouraged nationalism in Europe . |
| 20 | Until then the company 's reputation had been built on promises . |
| 21 | Constructed in a hexagon shape , it had been built of logs , now darkened with age . |
| 22 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 23 | Sky City One had been built by constructs such as these , their bodies and minds tailored for the job in hand . |
| 24 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 25 | The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years . |
| 26 | We had an expensive meal and tried to get drunk , but the evening had a forced feel to it as though it had been written on Orders that we would , compulsorily , enjoy ourselves . |
| 27 | Coleman once referred to ‘ heartbreaking ’ letters which he heard had been written by practitioners who had gone unprepared into country practice , but he said ‘ I have no compunctious visitings in the matter ’ . |
| 28 | Describing the donor response as " feeble " , Veloso said that only 387,000 tonnes of food had been pledged by donors , out of 916,000 tonnes requested ; less than 20 per cent of the amount requested had actually arrived in Mozambique . |
| 29 | Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable . |
| 30 | The playground , which up to then had been filled with shrieks and the shouting of children at play , all at once became silent as the grave . |