Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her ankle had been properly bandaged and she had been given pain-killers and ordered to keep off her foot as much as possible . |
| 2 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 3 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 4 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 5 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 6 | Until she was sixteen they had been constantly moving and there had never been anyone left behind to pass on her address . |
| 7 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 8 | He himself would have been desperately pushed if he had had to manage on two-thirds of his salary until Christmas every year . |
| 9 | It also says three earlier accidents had been largely ignored because there had been no fatalities . |
| 10 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 11 | Sheldon parry , it turned out , was a life member of the Society for psychical Research and had been deeply involved until he had lost his library books . |
| 12 | The foundations might have been securely laid if he had got to Walsingham . |
| 13 | He had as much right to be out walking as I had . ’ |
| 14 | At one point in Vikram Seth 's novel in verse The Golden Gate ( Faber , 1986 ) , the author interrupts the narrative to tell us that his idea for the book had not been well received when he had mentioned it to a publisher : |
| 15 | It follows that in my judgment the public law duties of the council were not discharged until they had completed the process of deciding on the suitable accommodation which they were obliged to secure for the plaintiff . |
| 16 | They began a three-year love affair , but were not to marry until he had enjoyed the full fruits of the fame that was just around the corner . |
| 17 | People were not behaving as he had ordained they should behave . |
| 18 | Patients were not included if they had required corticosteroid treatment for active disease after their most recent resection . |
| 19 | If proof were ever needed that I had a gift for spotting talent then my signing of Royston Marley was it . |
| 20 | And Truman felt that his authority as president was being directly challenged and he had no alternative but to sack MacArthur . |
| 21 | Only June and Ethel knew who his father was and now they were both gone and they had not told anyone . |
| 22 | They were also asked if they had ever consulted a doctor about recurrent bowel symptoms or abdominal pain . |
| 23 | Matsushita 's competitors were also affected for they had to make compensating decisions to protect their own market positions . |
| 24 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 25 | There was no reversal of policy : Nkrumah had been right in assessing their relative positions on Africa , only now the Tories were out to show that they had shed pre-war Conservatism . |
| 26 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 27 | I should have been here to meet you , but you were late arriving and I had an appointment in the village . ’ |
| 28 | It was as if he were truculently stating that he had gone as far towards her as he was prepared to go . |
| 29 | " Right then , " he said , when operations were satisfactorily completed and he had taken a swill of ale , " let's not back and fill , let's have everything full and by . " |
| 30 | This is not to deny that they had enemies . |