Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [pron] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the 1980 Act it had been observed that the law had been ‘ heavily weighed in favour of the local education authorities and schools with parents having few rights ( although many duties ) and little say in the decision-making process ’ . |
| 2 | The court ruled that a 101-year-old treaty with the USA could be used instead of a 1979 treaty which had been declared unconstitutional in June 1987 [ see p. 35756 ] . |
| 3 | One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch . |
| 4 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 5 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 6 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 7 | Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted . |
| 8 | They were three US citizens and one Australian who had been travelling together in a car , and one UK citizen who had been taken off a bus . |
| 9 | Prior to the 1966 Act there had been a duty imposed on the National Assistance Board to give assistance to those in need by the payment of national assistance , but no corresponding right for individuals to receive assistance . |
| 10 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 11 | If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then . |
| 12 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 13 | At one point it had been somebody 's house ; the gardens were laid out with palm trees , yucca plants and arranged flowerbeds . |
| 14 | One article which had been revised and resubmitted appeared in proof partly returned to its original form and partly left in the resubmitted form . |
| 15 | One moment they had been crossing a burning glade of shoulder-high grass in the full glare of the sun and the next they descended abruptly into a dark , silent , mysterious world where the air was cool and moist , the earth soft and spongy underfoot , and dazzling orchids blazed suddenly among the deep green undergrowth . |
| 16 | One moment it had been there , and the next ? |
| 17 | One moment she had been happier than she 'd ever been in her life , the next she was alone again . |
| 18 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 19 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 20 | You wanted at least one person who had been in a commune before , Mary said , and perhaps you ought to advertise along those lines . |
| 21 | Mabel was in the habit of throwing missiles at the Bargees and lightermen in her earlier years and one day she had been aiming coke at a local lighterman , Ben Johnson . |
| 22 | In one week I had been transformed into the two personae that I had always sworn to avoid : the preacher and the missionary . |
| 23 | One week there had been fifty fridge doors outside his office , another week forty or fifty bicycle frames , although Robert had not so far caught sight of a single chain , tyre , wheel or handlebar . |
| 24 | Prior to the June 13 deadline there had been increasing reports of ceasefire violations by Khmer Rouge fighters , leading UNTAC chief co-ordinator Yasushi Akashi to condemn the party 's behaviour as " extremely unacceptable " . |
| 25 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 26 | Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder . |
| 27 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 28 | In the words of one female who had been ‘ detoxed ’ on a number of occasions : |
| 29 | Lawton died in agony of the one thing he had been so afraid of ; died in an agony that was self-inflicted . |
| 30 | In one city he had been impersonated by a woman named Helen Potter , and in another a boy of sixteen managed to get into his hotel room . |