Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 2 | In two waves , one in late 1859 , the other in early 1860 , representatives of the various provincial committees which had come into being as a result of the Nazimov Rescript came to St Petersburg to discuss their ideas with the Editing Commissions . |
| 3 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 4 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 5 | The enthusiasm of official propaganda derived partly from the triumphalism inherent in a regime which had come into being by dint of a military victory , and partly from the need to conceal , or divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 6 | In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society . |
| 7 | Although at first he had to consolidate his position at home , it was always his ambition to undermine the European order which had come into being after the defeat of his uncle . |
| 8 | When Baby had been here , Dot remembered how she had yearned to be with him , amongst those quiet children so calm in their tidy beds . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 10 | It was quite simply that she had wanted to be with him . |
| 11 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 12 | When she was two years old she had seemed to be of a cheerful disposition and laughed obediently when he made a witch out of his knotted handkerchief or cast a swan 's shadow against her bedroom wall with his fingers . |
| 13 | She looked away from him , a faint blush beginning at her jawline , and he knew she was referring to the fact that he had not betrayed her , even though he knew she had lied about being with her mother in Wales . |
| 14 | She had offered to be at New Scotland Yard by nine-thirty and it was now nine forty-five . |
| 15 | But she had longed to be with him one more time . |
| 16 | Instead she found herself remembering things she had disliked about the flat — the row of closed doors in the long dark passage , the kitchen looking out on to a brick wall , the occasional stiflingly hot summer evening when she had longed to be in the country . |
| 17 | He was wondering wildly what had happened to Auguste who had promised to be at his side when , as he fully expected , glasses of this revolting potion were flung over his head by the irate tasters . |
| 18 | Perhaps only those for whom life itself had ceased to be worth living . |
| 19 | ‘ We had aimed to be in the top three and we need a real re-think . |
| 20 | At times , and briefly , they had seemed to be in sympathy , then without rhyme or reason his mood would change , the warmth , the closeness would vanish and he 'd be deliberately cruel and wounding … |
| 21 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 22 | Given asylum by King Alexander , it had remained in being as a military unit and on the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 had offered its services in defence of Yugoslavia against the Germans , although it did not take part in that brief campaign . |
| 23 | But that 's how it had got to be in the early days , otherwise it would have cost more to run than I took . |
| 24 | Paddy Kennedy , an RLP councillor who was himself taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs , said that he had seen Fitt fall to the ground and he had appeared to be on his knees when he was struck by a baton . |
| 25 | She disliked herself for what she was saying , for she knew the risk he had taken to be with her . |
| 26 | Despair shook her , her body screaming silently at the pain of leaving him , choosing not to think of the risk he had taken to be with her . |