Example sentences of "had [be] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |
| 2 | All the pre-race buzz among the 12,000 crowd had been about Ben Johnson . |
| 3 | None of the attackers , all of whom had been of subject races , had survived to be questioned . |
| 4 | In the Electoral College , Reagan 's victory had been of landslide proportions , but the popular vote told a different story . |
| 5 | I had been to Balsall Heath Health Centre on Edward Rd. with the NCT so we went there and all the other H.C.s and asked the Health Visitors . |
| 6 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 7 | He had been to Buckingham Palace for a Privy Council , and he was able to inform Asquith that the King still hoped for a solution without a change of Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Clelia worked there because she painted : also because her parents pulled strings : also because she had been to art school : also because she had some highly inexplicit connexion with Martin . |
| 9 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 10 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 11 | He had been to Martin Finkelstein 's bar mitzvah and had been given a small white hat , which was still on his mantelpiece at home . |
| 12 | It was assumed that many who appeared on the box had been to drama school . |
| 13 | Her mother had been to Falmouth shopping . |
| 14 | The Cap'n had been to Jarman House once … would be coming again more than likely . |
| 15 | I had been to Mr Grover for a complete check-up . |
| 16 | John Ellis wrote to Linnaeus in 1758 to say that he , with Collinson and Ehret , had been to Richard Warner 's garden at Woodford to see his rare plant , ‘ like a Jasmine , with a large double white flower , very odoriferous ’ . |
| 17 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 18 | His sister had been to St Saviour 's . |
| 19 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 20 | In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme . |
| 21 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 22 | Bradshaw and Millar found that 24 per cent of lone mothers who were or ever had been on income support said they had been , or would be , unwilling to give such information to the DSS . |
| 23 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 24 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 25 | The junior leader training at the Army Apprentice College at Harrogate had been on weekend leave and was due back at 11pm on Sunday . |
| 26 | He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake . |
| 27 | The Unit followed up the health of 700 children who had been on Blackpool beach last summer . |
| 28 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 29 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 30 | Baquerizo had been held in custody since May and , since Aug. 19 , had been on hunger strike . |