Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse fair had been abandoned , the stalls cleared and the shops deserted . |
| 2 | Specifically , the SE found that although Barlow Clowes claimed to deal only in government stock , ‘ evidence of their dealing in equities also had been found . ’ |
| 3 | It , too , sounded good but eighteen months later had been applied to only four favoured countries — Mexico , Venezuela , Costa Rica and the Philippines . |
| 4 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 5 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 6 | Perhaps the creature coming after Chant now had been responsible . |
| 7 | She spoke in a curiously musical , richly accented way with a certain pattern that could only be described as antique — as though the speech mannerisms of the local dales folk of two centuries ago had been preserved within Hannah . |
| 8 | ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again . |
| 9 | Another seven people murdered in Northern Ireland , a dreadful end to a dreadful week , and yet on Friday there had been at least a little optimism in the air , John Major and Albert Reynolds getting together in Brussels for what were billed as substantive talks , where does all that go now ? |
| 10 | Only last Friday there had been great excitement over Janice 's eighth birthday party . |
| 11 | Indeed , once the dollar effectively had been devalued it became more likely that the same might happen again in the near future . |
| 12 | Liam eventually had been revived but had suffered brain damage through lack of oxygen and a decision had been taken to switch off his life-support . |
| 13 | Their last work together had been with a dead child . |
| 14 | He pointed out , however , that since Mr Brown had already ‘ gone public ’ , he could reveal that the council already had been successful in obtaining a court decree against the former MP . |
| 15 | Pava Barisic , head of the local Red Cross , said the army had cancelled the convoys to Belgrade and the Croatian port of Split even although the departure of about 6,300 refugees already had been approved . |
| 16 | But he would be quite safe because he would keep a sharp look-out for anything and everything , and he would not be captured because no Longhand ever had been captured . |
| 17 | In December 1989 , coinciding with an improvement in Soviet-Vatican relations , Uniate congregations had been allowed legally to register [ see p. 37129 ] , and while the Uniate Church still did not formally enjoy full legal status most obstacles to its operating legally had been removed by the October 1990 Soviet law on freedom of worship [ see pp. 37787-88 ] . |
| 18 | The letter from Simon Westward had been courteous , but firm and dismissive . |
| 19 | ( The market 's post crash high had been 2,737.8 on 11 May 1992 . ) |
| 20 | The poverty of the peasants and the village communes meant that in 1792 , when the situation was transformed by the irruption of the armies of revolutionary France , less than half the redemptions of feudal rights envisaged two decades earlier had been completed . |
| 21 | Garau too had been lucky , to be charged with grievous bodily harm instead of murder . |
| 22 | The only worry Mum ever had was getting enough to go round . |
| 23 | Council chairman Phyll Hendy said Point Clear had been isolated from St Osyth several times already this year when the causeway between the two settlements had flooded . |
| 24 | The protagonist had punched one of the soldiers , whom he accused of throwing the glass , and Mr. Long had been forced to hit him in self-defence , which ended the fight . |
| 25 | At the time of the outbreak of unrest Long had been one of the most outspoken critics of corruption among politicians and officials . |
| 26 | Hazel could recall Hawkbit — a rather slow , stupid rabbit , whose company for five snow-bound days underground had been distinctly tedious . |
| 27 | One bright young man who some years before had been a ‘ star ’ pupil , and assured of a successful career in technology said he had ruined his chances by joining the demonstrations . |
| 28 | There was the Bishop of Limerick defending the Easter Rising , a man who thirty years before had been speaking out against resistance to civil authority . |
| 29 | True , he 'd had that weird feeling in the hall , but seeing her on the landing a moment ago had been no illusion . |
| 30 | He worked at a pharmaceutical firm processing chlorthalidone and nifedipine , but 5 days ago had been moved to the micronisation of glibenclamide , only recently introduced at the firm . |