Example sentences of "[verb] it had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since Miletti was immobilized it had been agreed that he would be fetched by a group consisting of Pietro Miletti escorted by Zen and Palottino in the Alfetta , with an ambulance in attendance in case Ruggiero required immediate attention . |
| 2 | ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . ) |
| 3 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 4 | He suggested this to a colleague , only to find it had been thought of before . |
| 5 | ‘ And when you came back from taking a party of tourists round Paris , it was to find it had been demolished , ’ he concluded quietly . |
| 6 | It was not until two o'clock therefore that they became anxious enough to call him on his car telephone — only to find it had been switched off . |
| 7 | We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws . |
| 8 | A man who momentarily left a computer game outside his house in Greenbank Road , Darlington , found it had been stolen when he returned . |
| 9 | The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day . |
| 10 | Those who claimed to have seen it were then asked what they could recall of its contents , and to what uses it had been put . |
| 11 | She added she had not seen a pewter mug with Ivy 's name on it in its usual place , but could not confirm it had been stolen until the house was straightened out . |
| 12 | On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese . |
| 13 | Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage . |
| 14 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 15 | I assumed it had been replaced , but in the circumstances … ’ |
| 16 | As it was still under guarantee , he took it back to the shop and a month later was told it had been repaired . |
| 17 | Lily Morrison went into Darlington Memorial Hospital after waiting 13 months for a hernia operation and waited hours before being told it had been cancelled . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , at Verdun when the battle began it had been outmatched — in numbers alone — by nearly five to one . |
| 19 | They discovered it had been hired by a Swiss honeymoon couple and they put out an alert for them . |
| 20 | But this dog , known as a Mexican hairless , landed him in court when trading standards officers in Felixstowe discovered it had been brought in without a licence . |
| 21 | I heard it had been said that it was discouraged but er |
| 22 | The tone in which Cap it had been said smarted like a cut . |
| 23 | The blue one was on saying it had been tested ! |
| 24 | ‘ It was still tagged with notes saying it had been found round Stephen 's neck . ’ |
| 25 | You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian . |
| 26 | Suppose it had been interfered with ? |
| 27 | We believe it had been buried in tin cans and hidden in walls |
| 28 | You see , they could n't rely on the local beys not to forget it had been abolished . |
| 29 | When the police eventually found the abandoned truck they 'd assume the driver who 'd stolen it had been drunk . |
| 30 | An angry Queen Victoria , however , felt it had been lifted far too much , particularly over the clashes between Palmerston as foreign secretary and the prince consort . |