Example sentences of "had be [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 2 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 3 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 4 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 5 | June 1944 , the Allied forces in Italy managed to reach Rome — which had been declared an ‘ open city ’ ( i.e. not to be damaged or destroyed by the conflicting forces ) and that was followed on 6th . |
| 6 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 7 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 8 | In a television interview , James Baker , the Secretary of State , said the Panama commander , General Maxwell Thurman , had been sent an order last Tuesday morning , the day of the coup , requiring him to seize General Noriega if there were an opportunity to do so ‘ without risking American life and without open military involvement , then he was free to go ahead ’ . |
| 9 | The year before , she and the Prince of Wales had been sent an unusual gift . |
| 10 | The Foreign Ministry on Aug. 21 announced that there had been discovered an attempt by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mohamed Taki to destabilize the government , and that one French mercenary and two Comorans had been arrested . |
| 11 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 12 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 13 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 14 | In March 1990 , Miklos Nemeth , then Prime Minister , alleged during a parliamentary debate on the January 1990 Danubegate scandal [ see p. 37194 ] that former leaders of the HSWP with the help of the hard-line Czechoslovak and Romanian regimes had been plotting an armed takeover of power in Hungary in the summer of 1989 . |
| 15 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 16 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 17 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 18 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 19 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 20 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 21 | It was in here , on the north side of the Kremlin , that Myeloski had been given an office . |
| 22 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 23 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 24 | Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree . |
| 25 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 26 | For the first time in his life Stan had been given an objective . |
| 27 | For Edward IV , however , this familiar problem had been given an additional twist by the Lancastrian sympathies of two of the leading northern families , the Percies and Cliffords . |
| 28 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 29 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 30 | For some time , Coutts had been considering an application from Virgin to increase their overdraft facility above the previously agreed limit of £4m . |