Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 2 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 3 | Evidence was also given that Ward had been suffering from a personality disorder and was highly suggestible at the time of her arrest and trial . |
| 4 | On the seas , the packet-steamer Sussex had been torpedoed with several Americans aboard , bringing a sharp ultimatum from President Wilson ; and both sides were shortly to claim victory in the Battle of Jutland . |
| 5 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 6 | The 59-member BLDC had been appointed by the NPC in June 1985 [ see p. 33660 ] and had published a first draft of the Basic Law in May 1988 and a second draft in February 1989 [ see p. 36763 ] . |
| 7 | That Johnny had is it still here ? |
| 8 | Leon did n't have time over the next hour to wonder what the energetic , highly competent and reliable Wellington had been doing to make him sweat . |
| 9 | Old Josh had been right , as always . |
| 10 | I was afraid Dana had been hurt , though if I 'd stopped to think I would have known she was n't . ’ |
| 11 | Even old Florence had been brought in and sat in the most comfortable armchair while they talked . |
| 12 | 24 year old Alexander had been admitted to Fairmile three days before his death , following a family argument at home in Woodley , near Reading . |
| 13 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 14 | Prosecuting counsel Mr David Williams told the court that British Telecom had been plagued by thefts and in May last year officers from the regional crime squad began keeping observations on the trio . |
| 15 | The real trouble with old Tom had been that when he came into contact with the evil mind , the scheming , devious , manipulative mind of some murderers , he could not bear it . |
| 16 | Then poor old Eddy had been a jungle of faint electric circuits connected to make thoughts and memories and aches and sleepiness , like a blackboard of chalk dust patterned to form the binomial theorem or the history of the Fourth Crusade . |
| 17 | Old Eddy had been wiped clean . |
| 18 | It looked as if Old Hubbard had been drinking again and had not shown up on Tuesday . |
| 19 | It was all too clear Auguste had been out enjoying the pleasures of Broadstairs , one of which was just disappearing up the main staircase , folding up her parasol . |
| 20 | The nuns , from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery in Daventry , had been told that the food poisoning in nearby Bedworth had been caused by Salmonella enteriditis . |
| 21 | She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls . |
| 22 | The Ingushetia conflict had caused more than 300 deaths , according to the Guardian of Nov. 20 , and over 50,000 Ingush had been forced to flee their homes in North Ossetia . |
| 23 | Quietly , too , Morton confided to Edward , the stiff and priggish Chamberlain had been pulling chestnuts from the fire . |
| 24 | This time poor old Simpson had been caught off-balance by events and had sounded distinctly agitated on the telephone . |
| 25 | The Christian religion was naturally of the greatest importance — the Master was in Holy Orders — but the Latin Vulgate had been replaced by the English of King James 's Bible . |
| 26 | It is difficult to resist the conclusion that after 1208 Innocent had been outmanoeuvred by certain forces beyond his control . |
| 27 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 28 | With its assertion of militarism , voluntarism and adventurism , it stands for everything that orthodox Marxists in Latin America had been arguing against for years . |
| 29 | Before that Eva had been in Rhodesia , Margaret and her husband were doing medical missionary work in India , the boys had been in the Far East . |
| 30 | It had happened before that England had been sluiced clean of every significant esoteric and thaumaturgist . |