Example sentences of "[pron] had be [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 2 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 3 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |
| 4 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 5 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 6 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 7 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 8 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 9 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 10 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 11 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 12 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |