Example sentences of "had [vb pp] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the so-called ‘ defense line ’ to which the Ambassador had referred was in actuality merely an enumeration of those sectors in the western Pacific in which the United States held firm military commitments : i.e. our responsibilities as an occupying Power in Japan , our special interest in the Philippines as a former part of United States territory etc . |
| 2 | Although well equipped , he had intended being on the mountain for just one day , and had taken only a packed lunch , water , and some chocolate with him . |
| 3 | The only payment she had received was from Charles Briant who had given her a generous bonus for her extra work on his boots . |
| 4 | The sense of urgency , of anger , of relentless pursuit , did not leave him but he felt once more the bitterness of inadequacy , the realisation that the task he had undertaken was beyond his personal power . |
| 5 | The hole through which Harry had fallen was in the centre of the ceiling . |
| 6 | In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom . |
| 7 | Many users modify existing style sheets but this can bring along huge amounts of excess styling information that you either do n't want or had forgotten was in there . |
| 8 | The last time they had met was on V.E. night in Berkeley . |
| 9 | The principal injury which he had suffered was to his hip . |
| 10 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 11 | On top of this the only action Rick had seen was on his furthest rod , away in the corner by the dam out-flow away from our movements . |
| 12 | This , according to the Nationalist , was nonsense : all the paper had done was to ‘ extol Kambona 's ego ’ ; the article ‘ excelled in lies and innuendo ’ . |
| 13 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 14 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |
| 15 | How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ? |
| 16 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 17 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 18 | Rachaela thought that the mistake her own mother had made was in her brainwashed attempts to care for and become involved with a child she did not want . |
| 19 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 20 | The men he had suspected were in prison serving life sentences . |
| 21 | The horde of all manner of machinery that Ernie had collected was beyond belief , including more than 250 antique cars , plus many military vehicles and farm tractors ! |
| 22 | The other fact which they had overlooked was of a different character but no less important in the long run . |
| 23 | This is the stage when the bereaved person often feels that the person who had died is with them in the house , talks to them , appears during the night , etc . |
| 24 | His government argued that the small temples which it had demolished were on land belonging to the state tourist department . |
| 25 | I would remember the sunlight that I had thought was like wealth , redeemed and transformed beyond the reach of cupidity , and the shadows that were not black but the colour of great half-forgotten riches . |
| 26 | The river we had crossed was to our left and was not , as we first thought , melt water from the spout ; that formed a river to our right . |
| 27 | By 1980 , the $380 million the Reichmanns had invested was worth $3 billion . |
| 28 | Det Supt Albert Kirby , the man in charge of the murder inquiry , said that the two boys they had arrested were from the Walton area of Liverpool . |
| 29 | He explained that all the answers he had found were in odd numbered positions in the sequence . |
| 30 | Amusingly , the one threat she had encountered was from another ‘ Queen of the Night ’ , a grossly huge woman , who only felt able to emerge into the world in the dead of night , and was enraged to find another woman watching her take her secret walk in the darkness . |