Example sentences of "[be] [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day .
2 He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman .
3 Oh I I mean I have n't been I had it on but I put it off because it was
4 Are you had a new one ?
5 Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep .
6 So you 've got warning , ’ she said dismissively , and McLeish let himself , briefly , wonder who the bloke had been who had introduced Catherine to this experience .
7 The rest of the staff was W old W J , who had been who had worked in the central Post Office I think in London , very well trained in in er office management and so on so on .
8 So was , was it also you that had got some , some , some dates in the references that had n't happened yet like the erm pe there was somebody it might have been you had actually referred to things that , you know , sort of twenty first of the fourth ninety four and things like that and it was sort of
9 Sir , that that provides a very very tight timetable , and up up to now , the ordinary timetable has been we had two weeks to respond to objections .
10 I said , well , I said , I 'm , I 'm someone had seen me last week .
11 That must be who had accused her .
12 But could be you had of an idea about Mahoney .
13 We should have headed for the nearest faux French bistro , be we had not finished our ‘ 89 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon blanc which nobody could spoil , so we sat it out .
14 But you said erm certain things could be we had , had a machine once and you 'd got to pull four or five handles .
15 We did actually have er , it 's a , I think what it might be we had a lady who came to brought her son , mind , her son 's thirty odd and they did the singing for us .
16 It was built er It has to be It had to be very well built and firm , because then , when it was used for the cow for the er sheep , usually , that best hay was left for the sheep .
17 It had better not be it had better not yeah well you see see how important that I it it on the basis of your voice now you might as well walk out the door .
18 What that something might turn out to be he had no idea .
19 If he was right , and he sent up a silent prayer that he was , it could be he had stumbled on Angel One 's secret escape route .
20 By 6.00 am everybody had assembled to get their orders for the day .
21 It had been they had put it out to the what they call peat moss .
22 As we said earlier on , he had been they had been travelling through and Jesus had se settled down there for a while and sent his disciples into a , th a nearby town across the frontier , er to get some food and some provisions , er to last them for the remainder of their journey and Jesus is just sitting there by this well , he 's tired , he 's thirsty , weary and hungry , just waiting there and then this lady comes to draw water from the well .
23 And it was all new fences and it had all been it had been .
24 But at the age of twelve I knew that a falconry course was way beyond my means , so for the time being I had to be content with reading about it .
25 You see now our Judy 's gone , I mean she weeed everywhere and there were nobody had got the heart to do anything about it .
26 The silence was broken by the entrance of Edward Morris , he smiled at her warmly and she returned his smile for this was a generous customer , a rare being who had paid her in advance for her work .
27 There was a Being who had made all things and who was to be feared .
28 It thought about Daine , the only human being who had made an impact on his century large enough to impinge significantly on Yggdrasil 's consciousness .
29 Studies 2 ( 1957 ) , 264–6 ) , shows himself as a frightened little being who had been sold into slavery in a remote land .
30 If we ask who the ‘ many people ’ were who had been saved from famine through Joseph 's foresight and planning , they were not merely Joseph , his father and brothers and their families , but all the people of Egypt .
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