Example sentences of "[noun] who had be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt like a boxer who had been pummelled mercilessly against the ropes , on the verge of defeat , only to see his opponent 's corner throw in the towel . |
| 2 | The battle achieved a notoriety in America when Life magazine published the photographs of 241 GIs who had been killed there in less than a week . |
| 3 | I have led back into the homeland the millions of deeply unhappy Germans who had been torn away from us . |
| 4 | The Brunei government on Jan. 6 ordered the release of six political prisoners who had been detained soon after the large-scale revolt which broke out in Brunei and other parts of British Borneo in 1962 [ see p. 19261 ; for release of 38 political detainees in 1988 see p. 36355 ] . |
| 5 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 6 | Their new abode was in a small , intimate street of 26 houses ; the Titfords in the male line were second generation immigrants from Somerset , but their neighbours there in Islington consisted of families who had been born anywhere other than London — a cosmopolitan mixture of Geordies , Lancastrians , people from Essex , Suffolk , Shropshire , Kent , Wiltshire , Somerset and Norfolk . |
| 7 | He was John Brown , a miner who had been entombed alone for 23 days . |
| 8 | At the end , a small piece of uncut corn would be left , full of terrified rabbits who had been driven further and further into the centre by the binder , the men and the noise . |
| 9 | Predictably , Franco believed that these were essentially good , but impressionable , young people who had been led astray by the agents of " anti-Spain " . |
| 10 | In one hotel they found a man who had been mugged twice , young people who had been threatened with a knife and a newly-wed husband who had had his wedding ring pulled off his fingers by local thieves . |
| 11 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 12 | It was as well that I did , however , for one most distinguished-looking lady of very advanced years moved to my table from the group of her friends who had been assisted indoors . |
| 13 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 14 | He was one-eyed with a great purple birthmark across his face ; he must be the same fellow who had been closeted so secretly with Irvine at the Sea Barque in Leicester . |
| 15 | The torches beam picked out a notice telling of the Covenanters who had been imprisoned there three hundred and fifty years before and another commemorating the once famous Scots buried under the damp , heavy earth . |
| 16 | The Ulster Protestant Unionists , the descendants of the English and Scottish settlers who had been planted there in the seventeenth century , reacted with fury and dismay to the news . |
| 17 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 18 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
| 19 | Scores of chained skeletons lay in the aisles — rivals , no doubt , of the regime , potential competitors for power who had been left here naked over the centuries , stripped of everything , to contemplate its monumental history while they starved . |