Example sentences of "that had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That always used to be a fortnight to three weeks to unload a ship but this one ship , that was called , I remember that was called the lovely ship and that had been bombed , that had a bomb drop right on the . |
| 2 | There was also concern about the environmental damage that had been suffered as a result of decisions about economic development taken in Moscow rather than in the republics themselves . |
| 3 | It trembled uncomprehendingly over Harry Dunstaple running towards the ramparts waving a sabre and shouting orders , with the bulging pockets of his Tweedside lounging jacket swinging about his knees over Ford , carefully laying a train back to the wall of the churchyard from one of the fougasses that had been dug … over the Sikhs staggering here and there with loads of small stones to shovel into another fougasse not yet completed … over the green Fleury having a rest in the shade of a tamarind beside the Church wall … and finally over the pariah dog , looking towards Fleury with admiration but from a respectful distance ( for Fleury continued to reject its advances ) . |
| 4 | So the funeral went on and the person was lowered into the grave that had been dug and the grave digger was asked to stay behind and they quickly got it put where it should be . |
| 5 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 6 | Her first two charges were a kitten that had been kicked so hard its front paw was broken and a dog who no-one would taken ‘ because it was so strange-looking . ’ |
| 7 | But more often the allocation of billets reflected social relations and deferential attitudes in rural society , as when , according to one MP , at Inverary in Scotland 150 women and children were housed in a cold hall , with bedding of dirty mattresses and sacks of straw ‘ with a broad arrow on them , that had been obtained from the local jail ’ , while near by the Duke of Argyll 's castle was left uninhabited . |
| 8 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 9 | Aubrey had been at his most affected , protesting volubly at the trick that had been played on him . |
| 10 | However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings . |
| 11 | One of his greatest achievements was to complete the theory of the so-called Diophantine linear equations , a subject that had been studied since antiquity ( Box A ) . |
| 12 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
| 13 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 14 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 15 | Few fights — occasionally , you 'd get a man who 'd been gashed in the face with a bottle , that had been drunk in the bar and you 'd be called in and you 'd take him to hospital . |
| 16 | The insignia of royalty that had been assumed by the papacy reflected a monarchical form and structure of government . |
| 17 | But this time , the voices were not in the distress of agony that had been heard in the reception area . |
| 18 | The turnout , across the Soviet Union as a whole , was 80 per cent , and of those who voted , 76.4 per cent declared in favour of the question that had been asked of them . |
| 19 | Nothing was left of the hundreds of thousands of pounds — perhaps as much as half the floating capital of Scotland — that had been invested and over half the colonists were dead of hunger or disease . |
| 20 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 21 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 22 | Five or six stones had toppled from the pile and were lying half-buried in the snow , and some red and white cloth streamers that had been tied to a branch of the tree fluttered slightly in the breeze , torn and faded from the wind and rain . |
| 23 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
| 24 | We stood in the doorway for a while until our eyes adjusted to the darkness and then , stooping low to avoid the worst of the smoke , we made our way through the crowd to a space that had been cleared for us close to the fire . |
| 25 | The night seemed light , the moon was scudding between white clouds , showing up the white world beyond the drive that had been cleared of snow . |
| 26 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 27 | The electrodes that had been implanted in its brain had been removed ; the scars from the surgery had healed and grown over with fur . |
| 28 | He thought of the latrine and the T-junction of a water-main pipe , and a hole that had been carved from the snow and frozen earth , and a screw top cover that was lagged at night , and a place that was in shadow from the arc lamps of the perimeter fences . |
| 29 | It stuck to Adam 's body , burnt into the jigsaw of cuts that had been carved into his skin . |
| 30 | It was also through Bede that the AD system of reckoning the years from the Incarnation of Christ , that had been devised two centuries before by Dionysius Exiguus , was introduced into England . |