Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contact is Georges , the man I mentioned earlier , who told me Edouard had been beaten up . |
| 2 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 3 | I was not a proper minister since I had no dog collar on and my Grace had been far too short . |
| 4 | It was allegedly from a woman called Sandra with whom Gilfoyle had been seen . |
| 5 | While the other half supported the society 's worthy aims ; one wealthy admirer even offered a donation of $400,000 , which had to be declined as outside donations were apparently prohibited according to the terms under which SINA had been established . |
| 6 | Artemis asked , as she stood admiring her fifteenth birthday present , a stunning looking dark brown thoroughbred gelding which Jenkins had been instructed to lead up outside the house as a surprise . |
| 7 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 8 | There was no clear indication of which group had assisted in his escape , with reports attributing a motive variously to the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , the left-wing December 20 ( M-20 ) guerrillas , or the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) , of which Gaitán had been a commander , and which was believed to have been behind a number of bombings since the US invasion . |
| 9 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 10 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 11 | The thought of an immediate confrontation with Jake was not one which Shiona had been particularly relishing . |
| 12 | As the warmth of the afternoon lessened , and the sun moved lower in the sky , and the Saturday afternoon noises of lawnmowers and children 's shouts gave way to the tranquillity of the evening , the quiet tenderness with which Johnny had been content until then gave way to a growing passion . |
| 13 | Of course , the Bath was not the only order of Christian chivalry into which Ceauşescu had been admitted . |
| 14 | The only new thing I could add was the prison bit , and Mrs McDougall had not told the girls anything about the offence of which Ewen had been convicted . |
| 15 | What I was really counting on was finding my way to the bed which Dennis had been denied . |
| 16 | The cell , although uncomfortable and oppressive , made for a haven of quiet and stillness within which Bernice had been able to calm and draw out the traumatized girl . |
| 17 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 18 | Great Aunt Emily was the only person who had remembered her childhood birthdays , sending parcels from Cornwall full of exquisite doll 's clothes made with her own hands of which Iskandara had been suitably scornful . |
| 19 | He lay on his side , holding the covers over him by their edges , gazing at some of his copies of Vogue , which Tessa had been looking through and left lying on the carpet in front of the fire , where they glowed pink and red . |
| 20 | Heather 's film would have led him there even if intuition had not , for the next picture on it was of some kind of school or college and there was one member of the Tyrrell Society 's inner circle , the circle in which Heather had been vitally interested whatever Cunningham might believe to the contrary , still unaccounted for . |
| 21 | ABPC ( the company into which BIP had been absorbed ) , for example , lost its Elstree base . |
| 22 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 23 | Subsequently the remnants of Rigunth 's treasure , for which Waddo had been responsible , and which Desiderius had secured , fell into his hands . |
| 24 | As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out , he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him . |
| 25 | This powerfully confirmed the way in which Tolkien had been accustoming himself to think about the world ever since he grew to manhood . |
| 26 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 27 | It was not an uncommon illness in the West Indies at the time , and the variety which Worrell had was particularly virulent . |
| 28 | In presenting his administration 's programme to parliament on April 24 , Mitsotakis stressed his desire for consensus and reaffirmed the economic platform on which ND had been elected . |
| 29 | Debate on 16 November was enlivened by a passionate defence of the schema from the Bishop of Faenza who attacked the Jesuit-run Biblical Institute , of which Bea had been rector . |
| 30 | Her mother had come over to tell her Joanne had been kept in hospital with high blood pressure and threatened eclampsia . |