Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’ |
| 2 | For the first time in months , her hair had been cut and now swung in a pale honey curtain halfway down her back . |
| 3 | Her nails had been manicured and lightly touched with colour , and her cheeks , slightly flushed , seemed somehow to add emphasis to the startling green of her eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ In reaching its verdict , the commission accepted Mr Jones has issued a press statement apologising for his participation in the video and that he had been misled and badly advised , but that his actions were irresponsible . |
| 5 | She had been beaten and sexually assaulted . |
| 6 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 7 | She was producing some 100,000 rifles a month ; many more were received from her allies ; and hundreds of thousands of recruits had been enlisted and partly trained . |
| 8 | Once the basic approach had been decided and successfully implemented , the system could then easily be extended to cover all BAA employees . |
| 9 | But , in this case , we must suppose that he was both immoral and stupid : immoral in producing evidence which he knew to be forged , and stupid in not going further and producing the letters with their forged additions , for he would have known that a similar forgery supporting the monastic community at Canterbury had recently been submitted at Rome , and that it had been accepted and solemnly quoted to him by the pope as genuine . |
| 10 | According to the report , over 100 people had been detained and possibly tortured in East Timor during the previous six months for their alleged involvement in pro-independence activities . |
| 11 | His distinguishing marks were a duelling scar across his hand , and also a deformed thumb that had been broken and badly reset ; it gave the impression of a parrot 's bill . |
| 12 | Pro-democracy groups claimed that hundreds of demonstrators had been killed and secretly buried by the army . |
| 13 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 14 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 15 | He had been arrested and roughly handled in an interrogation recently . |
| 16 | In the mean time , some of his lands had been occupied and doubtless protected by royalist kinsmen — by Roger de Clifford and by William de Beauchamp of Elmley [ q.v. ] , who had married one of Fitzjohn 's sisters . |
| 17 | Betty Titford , Thomas 's wife , received help because she was sick ; Thomas himself was out of work in 1801 , and qualified for relief both on that score and because he was the head of a one-parent family which included a sick daughter ; Hephzibah , the little orphan , had been helped and then apprenticed by the overseers , and finally John and Ann , briefly subsidised during times of economic dearth , eventually survived long enough to collect a very modest old-age pension . |
| 18 | Later research suggests , however , that they were more common in the North-west than had been supposed and probably began in the South-east in the late sixteenth century , and has cast doubt on the validity of seeking to impose too rigid a geographical pattern on food rioting from the recorded incidence . |
| 19 | Fortunately no-one was seriously hurt and no inmate escaped but the risk of trouble had been spotted and little done to stop it . |
| 20 | Gary 's father , Frank Hutchinson , of Frederick Street , Meadowfield , told an inquest in Darlington yesterday that as soon as he heard the news on the radio he was certain his son had been hurt and immediately contacted police . |
| 21 | Prince Charles had been talking and gently agitating about the subject for many years . |
| 22 | News came in March that he had been captured and probably killed during the retreat from Teruel . |
| 23 | Faeces were collected in plastic buckets to which 10 ml of thiomersal solution ( 1:1000 ) had been added and immediately stored at 4°C . |
| 24 | The Patrimony of St Peter had been restored and even enlarged , and papal control was to be extended even further before Innocent 's death . |
| 25 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 26 | The wood of the planks was almost white , but it had been sanded and then varnished with gums and resins until it glistened . |
| 27 | The unfortunate Doctor had been immersed and then lifted out , as he had instructed , for a blister to be applied to his spine . |
| 28 | In almost the first 12 months the locomotive is back together again in one piece although some parts had been re-engineered and considerably altered so that the whole locomotive would take on the appearance of its British counterparts . |