Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already said that anathema had been pronounced over the Avant-garde from the beginning of the Thirties , and that made it very difficult for the avant-garde artists themselves , as well as for their families . |
| 2 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
| 3 | Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre . |
| 4 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 5 | I was disappointed that the water-wheel had gone — the kitchen had been built over the pit which had housed it . |
| 6 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 7 | In each case ozone-poor air had been blown over the city after the annual break-up of the Antarctic ozone hold at the end of the southern spring . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , some 730 ‘ cables ’ had been transmitted over the line and so Field and his colleagues had proved that a transoceanic cable was not only feasible , but could also take a great deal of traffic . |
| 9 | Mark 's name had been called over the loudspeaker system . |
| 10 | He had the pathologist 's preliminary report which had been dictated over the telephone . |
| 11 | The car , a green Morris Minor , had been toppled over the edge of a shallow depression in the wasteland , and had lurched to rest on a grassy plateau about ten feet from the ridge like a clumsy animal going to earth . |
| 12 | On Clwyd limestone , fears had been expressed over the possibility of losing the trees along the top of the World 's End crags . |
| 13 | This amount had been collected over the winter , with the proceeds of a weekly raffle also being added to the bottle . |
| 14 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 15 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 16 | Much interest was expressed from personnel across the system in the work in which I had been involved over the last eleven years with Queensland Catholic Education . |
| 17 | Each path would be expanded in a depth-first , backtrack , depth-first , backtrack pattern until each possible combination had been extended over the poor patch . |
| 18 | Pocklington 's population rose from 1,502 in 1801 to 2,546 in 1851 but two excellent plans of the town , drawn up by William Watson in 1844 and 1855 , show how little the medieval lay-out had been altered over the years other than by encroachments onto the market place . |
| 19 | PRI political secretary Giorgio La Malfa claimed that he had been misled over the Cabinet posts by Andreotti " who I thought was a man of quality " . |
| 20 | At about that time , Kurds in Iraq , hoping perhaps to emulate the positive side of what had been achieved over the border , rose in revolt . |
| 21 | He had been admonished over the incident , which happened in August 1991 near his home . |
| 22 | The road had been widened over the years . |
| 23 | Poor Father O'Hara had contracted cholera and died shortly after the withdrawal to the banqueting hall ; when his body had been heaved over the ramparts for the jackals and pariah dogs ( the only way that remained for disposing of the dead ) , a number of heavy metal beads , crosses , Saints and Virgins had been discovered in his effects . |
| 24 | On the fifteen-mile drive , they had been instructed over the radio to stop on the outskirts of St Petersburg , where the woman was transferred to an unmarked car . |
| 25 | It had been welded over the preceding decades by the authoritarianism of manager Bill Struth , staunch Presbyterian traditions , the famous ‘ iron curtain ’ defence and tough captains like Big George Young . |
| 26 | Absolutely — and it is the Secretary of State 's Department that is guilty of taking benefits away from millions of people who would have benefited if the Labour Government 's policies had been maintained over the past 12 years by this tawdry , rotten Tory Government . |
| 27 | Indeed by the end of the 1980s , a significant degree of consensus had been reached over the organising concepts behind the historical approach . |
| 28 | Chaovalit 's entry to government was expected to raise the prestige of the administration which had been beset over the previous year by a series of corruption scandals and labour disputes . |
| 29 | The handles of knives were frequently made of two pieces riveted together , but the alder-wood handle of a knife from Christchurch ( Hampshire ) was one piece of wood which had been forced over the pointed tang ( Jarvis et al . |
| 30 | The gate at the frontier had been pulled over the road and locked shut . |