Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had also been discovered that ANT , which had since been closed down , had been preparing other illegal export deals worth nearly US$900,000,000 involving items including valuable metals , uncut diamonds and classified aviation equipment . |
| 2 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 3 | The two girls were both on night duty and they waited in vain all night , hoping against hope that Steve and his crew had perhaps been forced down somewhere , but by the time dawn came up and there was still no news , they realised he was just another casualty . |
| 4 | This did not imply , however , that they had necessarily been approved either by the European Parliament or by the various national parliaments and the Commission complained that Italy had implemented fewer than half of them . |
| 5 | The Mercedes slid to a halt outside a fair-sized , 1930s detached house set back from the road by a small garden which had thoughtfully been concreted over . |
| 6 | They illuminated the structure of chemical compounds , which had hitherto been seen simply in quantitative terms ( i.e. the number of atoms in a molecule ) . |
| 7 | The brush was all brown as though autumn had come to these islands where there is no autumn but only a more dangerous summer , but that was because the leaves had all been blown away . |
| 8 | The original stuff had all been ripped out years ago , so when I moved in I thought I 'd go to town on the redecoration . |
| 9 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 10 | He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed . |
| 11 | There was no more ugly brown wallpaper ; it had all been stripped off , and the walls were white-washed . |
| 12 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 13 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 14 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 15 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 16 | The ghouls had all been sent away and under the fierce new glare of naked lights , caretakers were clearing up while someone pushed a trolley of glass-eyed computer-monitors that got into everybody 's way . |
| 17 | The demands and arguments put forward at the Congress had all been heard before . |
| 18 | Mars , she herself would later remark , had all been parcelled up ; the smart money had moved on . |
| 19 | The BR spokesman said an immediate inquiry had been launched but the barriers , warning lights and lights illuminating signs had all been working properly . |
| 20 | We had all been brought up to invest our hopes and future in the ‘ western way of life ’ and were learning to develop thick skins against the blatant institutionalized and individual racism we faced every day . |
| 21 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 22 | Fire rides , equipment , improvement of the natural water supplies , rendezvous points , sign posting , adequate access into the woods , had all been discussed solemnly as befitted their importance . |
| 23 | His nickname , his flattened nose , a crossed scar like an emblem beside one eyebrow had all been won honourably , in and out of the ring , and whatever suspicions he might have about the feelings — even about the suitability for the present assignment — of Denis Hurley , sitting back-to-back with him on the cart , he knew that he would be man enough for anything , his nerve would not fail . |
| 24 | She and Rufus and Adam himself had all been putting forward the names of people they knew who might want to be part of a commune , likely people of the right sort of age and the right sort of temperament . |
| 25 | The poverty , unremitting daily grind of hardship , poor food , pawnbroking , unemployment and hopelessness , had all been chronicled before in the London of Henry Mayhew and Charles Booth . |
| 26 | An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property . |
| 27 | The political correspondents had all been carried away . |
| 28 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 29 | On Jan. 3 the government claimed to have defeated the rebels and on Jan. 7 the French government started to pull out its reinforcements on the grounds that they had only been sent in to protect French expatriates and that this purpose had now been served . |
| 30 | Until this weekend mother and children had only been kept apart by official engagements . |