Example sentences of "[conj] they had be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 2 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 3 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 4 | I wondered whether Lili would agree that they had been best friends . |
| 5 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 6 | And they had been good years . |
| 7 | Jesus , it was one island , that was true , but the terrain made the halves more remote from each other than if they had been two islands separated by a sea channel : you could n't skip across our jungles and mountains in an outrigger . |
| 8 | What if they had been English saboteurs , Maclean demanded . |
| 9 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 10 | He 'd seen salamanders before , of course , but they had been small specimens . |
| 11 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 12 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 13 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 14 | From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge . |