Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] had be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Eddy had been wiped clean . |
| 2 | This time poor old Simpson had been caught off-balance by events and had sounded distinctly agitated on the telephone . |
| 3 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 4 | Kicking her shoes off in her hotel bedroom , hanging up her Chanel suit , removing her earrings , she could n't help feeling glad — sorry though she undoubtedly was , of course — that poor Felicity had been laid low with the chicken-pox . |
| 5 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |