Example sentences of "thing had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 2 | Things had been moving so slowly in recent months that some Conservative MPs , like Robert Adley , the railway buff who chairs the Tories ' backbench transport committee , were convinced that privatisation was about to be dropped altogether . |
| 3 | Ever since Tug opened his eyes and saw Doyle in front of the door , things had been different from the other mornings . |
| 4 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |
| 5 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 6 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 7 | Since Dorothy 's accident , however , things had been a little strained . |
| 8 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 9 | Things had been tense between us throughout the two-year preparation period . |
| 10 | ‘ Fieseler Storch , ’ he said , pointing at the little aeroplane , but already my technical interest in such things had been packed into the past . |
| 11 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 12 | It is a complacent researcher indeed who does not look back on the research findings and wish that some things had been done better . |
| 13 | If such things had been happening , I would have come across them . ’ |
| 14 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 15 | How different things had been last spring , for all their difficulties . |
| 16 | HP-style credit is really money lent to buy things — and credit agreements which left the lenders any rights to take possession of things bought under them should be seen as if those things had been bought on mortgage ( ‘ chattel mortgages ’ ) ; |
| 17 | It was better that way , she supposed , though if things had been normal at home Rob could have phoned her there . |
| 18 | The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind . |
| 19 | Yet beneath the surface many other things had been happening too . |
| 20 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 21 | In other words , someone had set fire to the dacha , and the things had been stolen from it before the fire had started . |
| 22 | Immediately after our arrival things had been quiet . |
| 23 | Or a couple , who talked a lot about how things had been , and how they were n't the same now . |
| 24 | " I wish things had been different so that we could have made love just once . |
| 25 | But to assert that is by definition to assert no more than a certain independent conditional-roughly , that since the circumstance existed , even if most other things had been different , the effect would still have occurred . |
| 26 | That is to say , roughly , that if the effect occurred , and no other causal circumstance for it but one existed , that one would still have existed even if most other things had been different . |
| 27 | I asked Jean-Claude whether things had been different , once , between them . |
| 28 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 29 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
| 30 | She remembered well the way things had been . |