Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] had [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 2 | Their throats had been slashed open and their bodies stripped naked . |
| 3 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 4 | All of its provisions had been upheld other than that relating to spousal notification which was struck down by two votes to one . |
| 5 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 6 | Her hopes had been lifted high ; now she felt numb . |
| 7 | His sandals had been scraped clean but they still looked pretty dingy . |
| 8 | But if some of our constituents had been offered other options , they would not have chosen residential or nursing care . |