Example sentences of "had be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessamyn lay flat on the contoured table as the Doc sliced away the facial bandages , still relaxed from the morph-plus shots she had been taking every day . |
| 2 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 3 | Builder Dave Young , wife Jane and son Paul , three — who had been taking a dip in the hotel pool — were left with just the costumes they had on . |
| 4 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 5 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 6 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 7 | Sir Robin Day , who had been taking a nap on a sofa in the BBC room in the balcony , was hurriedly awakened . |
| 8 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |
| 9 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 10 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 11 | The priest , with folded hands and closed eyes , recited Grace , and the meal began : soup served by a daughter of the same sister of Rose 's who had been taking the photos ; chicken and ham , with salad . |
| 12 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |
| 13 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 14 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 15 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |
| 16 | Construction work had been halted a week earlier in line with EC demands . |
| 17 | After Peggy had been serving a while she muttered , ‘ Spotted a likely in the new wave , duchess ? ’ and the blue-eyed blonde with the full-lipped mouth shook her head as she said , ‘ They all look married to me . ’ |
| 18 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
| 19 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 20 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We had been taught the history of the organisation , and each day were learning more about its curious codes of morality and behaviour . |
| 25 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 26 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 27 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 28 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 29 | French maintained that he thought that the safety catch was on and that he had been struck a blow on the back of the head which had caused him to stagger and pull the trigger . |
| 30 | Judge Gerhard A. Gesell ruled that Hopkins , who had been denied a partnership in 1982 because her colleagues considered her to be too " macho " , had been the victim of illegal " sex stereotyping " . |