Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 2 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 3 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 4 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 5 | Fifteen years were to pass before I had a book published by Faber 's , but by then I had been launched by other publishing houses . |
| 6 | I had been enthralled by true stories of savage tribes , frontier raids and lion hunts . |
| 7 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 8 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
| 9 | There were stories that she had been eaten by wild animals , but John Ward did n't believe it . |
| 10 | Miss Lowe had become very ill , her blood sugar level had fallen so low it was unrecordable in a test , and in hospital she had been diagnosed as suffering insulin-induced hypoglycaemia , lack of sugar in the blood . |
| 11 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 12 | Kenya 's Chief Magistrate , Joseph Mango , ruled on Oct. 27 , 1989 , at the inquest of a British tourist , Julie Ward , whose body was found in the Masai Mara game reserve in September 1988 , that she had been the victim of " foul play by persons unknown " , contrary to previous official claims that she had been killed by wild animals [ see p. 36917 ] . |
| 13 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 14 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 15 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 16 | She had been dressed in bridal white , walking up the aisle of a church — towards Hugh . |
| 17 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 18 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 19 | She had been assisted on humanitarian grounds for long enough and her allegations ‘ came forth when the assistance ceased ’ , it said . |
| 20 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 21 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 22 | After the depressing makeshifts to which she had been reduced by British rationing , the sensation of wonderful materials against her skin was almost as pleasing as the vendeuse 's comments about ‘ Madame 's wonderful figure ’ and striking face . |
| 23 | She had been tortured with electric shocks — as had every teenager I met who had been detained during the township unrest . |
| 24 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 25 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 26 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 27 | Perhaps if she had been seized by orthodox kidnappers , demanding millions of pounds in ransom , it would have been different . |
| 28 | As though she had been doused in cold water , she stiffened and moved away . |
| 29 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 30 | She had been held in high esteem by numerous people who all wanted to pay their respect . |