Example sentences of "it had be [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 2 | It had been cleared of papers ; the typewriter was covered and the chair pushed firmly into place . |
| 3 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 4 | Constructed in a hexagon shape , it had been built of logs , now darkened with age . |
| 5 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 6 | By the late 1960s , it had been stripped of its machinery and converted for other purposes . |
| 7 | On the contrary , the Skein of Geese was exactly as Heather had photographed it , save only that the trees behind it had been stripped of their leaves and the croquet hoops put away for the winter . |
| 8 | It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again … |
| 9 | He suggested this to a colleague , only to find it had been thought of before . |
| 10 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 11 | His smile vanished as if it had been peeled of . |
| 12 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that deposition should be mooted again — it had been talked of in the Gaveston crisis . |