Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's jeans and shirt had been tossed on to the rumpled heap made by his sleeping-bag and two dented pillows . |
| 3 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 4 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 5 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |
| 6 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 7 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 8 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 9 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 10 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 11 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 12 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 13 | These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market . |
| 14 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 15 | Areas which were both ambiguous acoustically and relatively unconstrained by higher-level knowledge sources would not be processed until a more global interpretation of the utterance had been built up through the extension of various islands . |
| 16 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 17 | ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 19 | Interestingly , the two semicircular towers had been built out over the filled ditch of the earlier rampart , as had the semioctagonal external tower at the north-west corner . |
| 20 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 21 | Lying across the East-West divide , the Germans began to feel they had a special understanding of world peace , as well as that they had been singled out by the ‘ Great Powers ’ as Europe 's potential war playground . |
| 22 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 23 | Shards of glass were still falling 12 hours after the blast and computers had been blown on to the pavement . |
| 24 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 25 | His dog tags had been blown off in the blast and the head wound had severely damaged his memory so that no one had any idea of his identity . |
| 26 | It was wonderful to see how the great court filled , as though the word of her return in triumph had been blown in on the wind . |
| 27 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 28 | His fascination with anything to do with space and spaceflight bordered upon obsession and he had been horrified when The New Hope had been blown out of the sky by the Seven . |
| 29 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 30 | A prelude to 1811 – 12 had been played out in the woollen districts of Wiltshire between 1799 and 1802 . |