Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [conj] it had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records . |
| 2 | When one turns to his large-scale tonal designs , unexplored until now , it becomes apparent that Lully 's influence is as preponderant in Campra 's cantatas as it had been in his stage music . |
| 3 | Before moving into it the family had lived with Sally 's grandparents and it had been very cramped . |
| 4 | During his summing up , Mr Justice Henry had instructed the jury to reject Saunders 's claim that it had been a " victimless crime " because no-one appeared to have lost money through it . |
| 5 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 6 | The British critic Bryher regarded the film as ‘ the first authentic comment on the War ’ , praised particularly the depiction of enlistment , and poured scorn on those other British critics who had disliked the film 's suggestion that it had been America who had won the war . |
| 7 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 8 | They might make an incidental contribution to crop production by agreeing to graze their herds over settled farmers ' land once it had been harvested . |