Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 2 | She was muddy , her dress torn , her hair looked like it had been combed with a hedge , but she crackled with so much internal power that she was nearly throwing off sparks . |
| 3 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 4 | She opened her bag and sifted the contents , trying to discover whether it had been searched . |
| 5 | They explained that the meeting was cancelled and everyone dispersed as it had been confirmed that the government was about to arrest all strike leaders . |
| 6 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |
| 7 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 8 | He appears to have maintained in the Court of Session that the provisions of that Act should not be applied because it had been passed without his having had notice as required by Standing Orders … |
| 9 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 10 | Their hay would be fed as it had been cut , handful by handful , and should be enough with seaweed and oat straw to feed her till she was helped out in the spring . |
| 11 | Lawton ended the conversation saying he would be back ‘ tomorrow ’ [ Friday ] to see if it had been put right . |
| 12 | In Kennedy v. Broun ( 1863 ) 13 C.B. 677 ( Common Pleas ) Erle C.J. said that in Lampleigh v. Brathwait , ‘ it was assumed that the journeys which the plaintiff performed at the request of the defendant , and the other services he rendered , would have been sufficient to make any promise binding if it had been connected therewith in one contract ; the peculiarity of the decision lies in connecting a subsequent promise with a prior consideration after it had been executed . |
| 13 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 14 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 15 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 16 | The duty was a subjective one , as in considering whether it had been broken , the court had to take account of the resources of the occupier . |
| 17 | She had n't known if it had been changed — it was unlikely — but if nothing else it would help to gain him admittance . |
| 18 | Hawthorn 's despatch case lay where it had been knocked over . |
| 19 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 20 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 21 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |
| 22 | It looked like it had been grown in a tropical rain forest . |
| 23 | When Aston Villa forward Billy Walker scored two goals against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final of 1920 he was wearing a kit that looked like it had been designed by Yohji , styled by Gaultier and captured for posterity by Bruce Weber and his trusty box brownie . |
| 24 | It looked like it had been taken apart with a bulldozer |
| 25 | It looked like it had been crucified . |
| 26 | A body did n't change if it had been blasted with an automatic weapon in a robbery on Lenox Square or gunned down on a sidewalk in Athens . |
| 27 | However , in spite of possible disagreement on these issues , Mr Clinton commented warmly on the special relationship when asked whether it had been harmed . |
| 28 | I am not referring to The Sunday Times cocked-up , distorted version , which CIPFA denounced after it had been printed . |
| 29 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 30 | The question was one which must often have arisen in this period of extensive rebuilding : Did an altar require to be reconsecrated after it had been moved ? |