Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who even in their wildest dreams could have anticipated such a victory only nine weeks after the same side had been overwhelmed 15–3 by Scotland at Murrayfield . |
| 2 | Who even in their wildest dreams could have anticipated such a victory only nine weeks after the same side had been overwhelmed 15–3 by Scotland at Murrayfield . |
| 3 | A few days before he resigned from West Ham , the club had been beaten 6–0 in the first leg of a crunch match against Oldham . |
| 4 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 5 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 6 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 7 | I 've often wish 'd , for the honour of our Sex , that these Subjects had been exhausted seventeen hundred years ago ; but am afraid that seventeen hundred years hence , we shall have the same false Corydon 's , and the same complaining Sylvia 's . |
| 8 | The response probably would have been smoother because the effect of the 0/1 potency had been completed six weeks earlier . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 10 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 11 | Race officials claim the start of the run had been delayed 20 minutes to avoid the train but the race was running 10 minutes ahead of schedule . |
| 12 | This patient had a history of chest pain , although a negative exercise test had been recorded 7.5 months before the episode . |
| 13 | During the terrible retreat from Mons in late August , certain officers wrote home of their impression that their foot-sore infantry had been accompanied one night by a mysterious force of cavalry , of which no trace could be found next day . |
| 14 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 15 | The Preston North End boss celebrated his 44th birthday on Sunday but his fate had been sealed 24 hours earlier with the 2-0 home defeat against Hartlepool . |
| 16 | ‘ Take us to our hotel , ’ George and Pat asked taxi driver Markus Wermelskirchen outside a bar in Cologne , where Celtic had been thrashed 0 — 2 in the UEFA Cup . |
| 17 | The need for a wider focus had been signalled five years earlier when the merger of the Howard Association and the prison Reform League resulted in the establishment of the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 18 | I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other . |
| 19 | the possession of the motor car was just becoming the norm , but the town had been designed fifteen years earlier |
| 20 | Once the last post had been played two thousand eyes closed , as soldiers under canvas for the first time tried to sleep . |
| 21 | Some 8-10,000 Sri Lankan troops had been landed 9 km further east on July 14 and gradually fought their way to Elephant Pass , supported by naval shelling of LTTE positions . |
| 22 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 23 | Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest . |
| 24 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 25 | My second husband had been born 6,000 miles away , but at his funeral service the coffin lay but a few feet from the church war memorial tablet bearing Leslie 's name . |
| 26 | If those resources had been given three or four years ago , we would not have the long delays that lead to so much misery , and the small number of non-genuine asylum seekers would not be here for longer than we would all want . |
| 27 | ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 28 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 29 | And as the Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , told a conference on teacher education in 1976 , ‘ if a meeting on teacher education had been held four years ago , the Council would not have been invited to attend ’ . |
| 30 | It was understood that the UK had been guaranteed three of the quota of 15 tests authorized by Congress over the next three years under new test-ban legislation passed in September [ see p. 39121 ] . |