Example sentences of "had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The contributors we had are all kind of double-0-seven , cloak-and-dagger types ’ , explained Krishna Littledale , one of the enticers of funds ; ‘ … if you talk very quietly and tell them they ca n't tell anyone about this conference , they will give you a lot more money . ’ |
| 2 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 3 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 4 | In April AI learned that warrants had been issued for the arrest of two police officers and a civilian in connection with the killing of 17-year-old Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales . |
| 5 | Some of the bodies showed signs of torture and in many cases personal documents had been removed to prevent identification . |
| 6 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 7 | Reporting back after a two-week visit to Kuwait , an AI fact-finding team said scores of victims had been killed and hundreds more had been arbitrarily arrested , many brutally tortured by Kuwaiti armed forces and members of ‘ resistance ’ groups since 26 February . |
| 8 | Reporting back after a two-week visit to Kuwait , an AI fact-finding team said scores of victims had been killed and hundreds more had been arbitrarily arrested , many brutally tortured by Kuwaiti armed forces and members of ‘ resistance ’ groups since 26 February . |
| 9 | They had been held in the Military Prison outside Kuwait City , some for over a month , reportedly in deplorable conditions . |
| 10 | In November 1990 he had been arrested in connection with a protest by women in Riyadh against a ban on women drivers . |
| 11 | A prisoner of conscience had been freed in Spain . |
| 12 | A Christmas card sent to him by an AI member in Switzerland had been returned marked ‘ Consigned is free ’ . |
| 13 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 14 | In 1983 AI learned of the release of a group of Jehovah 's Witnesses who had been held without trial since 1978 . |
| 15 | No reply was received but the group later heard that Bashir had been released . |
| 16 | Then earlier this year the group received a reply from another prisoner at Shalla who had been given their letter to Bashir by mistake . |
| 17 | The letter-writer is an orthopaedic surgeon who was taken off a plane as he was about to make a short visit to the UK where he had been a post-graduate student . |
| 18 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 19 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 20 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 21 | Sadly , the notes referred to money and medicines that had been sent by the family but not received in the prison . |
| 22 | The police had been asked by the organizers of the vigil to provide protection after an incident earlier in the evening when about 200 suspicious-looking men appeared outside the house where the vigil was being held . |
| 23 | He was afraid of being sent back to Ethiopia , where close family members had been imprisoned and tortured . |
| 24 | Walter Pater was a master of atmosphere ; he had been inspired as a young man by Ruskin , and his idealism about art and his fine prose were in turn much admired by a younger generation of aesthetes , among whom Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure . |
| 25 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 26 | Some of the main efforts of historians in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed to putting order into a mass of material , analysing works and documents , and establishing historical data . |
| 27 | Her National Gallery choices of pictures were examples of problems posed to artists by colour , and in a video talk she demonstrated how these artistic problems had been solved . |
| 28 | Some commentators have complained that Clark 's title , Civilisation , was misleading , as only Western arts were treated ; but even if Clark had been willing to take on world art , costs would no doubt have prevented such a grandiose project . |
| 29 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |
| 30 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |