Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] that had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to think about the silly outfits you were wearing or the paint slathered on your face or hair that had been whipped and frothed into a lion 's mane . |
| 2 | It was the end of a trail which had had its beginnings in those first rumblings of Henry Fairlie against the Establishment and Malcolm Muggeridge against the Monarchy ; a trail that had led on through the Angry Young Men and all the resentments sown by Suez , through the heyday of affluence , through all the mounting impatience with convention , tradition and authority that had been marked by the teenage revolution and the CND and the New Morality , through the darkening landscape of security scandals and What 's Wrong With Britain and the rising aggression and bitterness of the satirists , in ever more violent momentum . |
| 3 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 4 | If you measure the atmospheric rise in carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel burning , you 'll see that it 's only about one half of that predicted if all of the coal and oil that had been burnt since the industrial revolution had gone into the atmosphere , we would probably have er an increase in C O two double what we can actually measure . |
| 5 | ALCOHOLIC Linda McMullen had been savagely beaten but the main cause of her death was the soil , debris and vegetation that had been packed into her mouth and choked her , a jury at Mold Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 6 | He did not consider the quantity of valuable raw materials and energy that had been consumed in the fridge 's manufacture . |