Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day I came up here , there were no workmen and the deserted new village was occupied only by horses , wandering at liberty between the half-finished buildings , the machinery and the piles of materials — hardly the setting for which they had been intended when set loose for the summer to forage for themselves . |
| 2 | Ken meanwhile was beginning to look down on a great deal of what he had been asked to do professionally . |
| 3 | Then , suddenly , just as Joanna was nodding a dubious assent , the full force of what she had been told hit her like a thunderbolt . |
| 4 | partly the causes were external — loss of friends , hosts of visitors — but partly temperamental : Tolkien could not ‘ discipline himself into adopting regular working methods ’ ( a fault of which he had been aware since the time of ‘ Leaf by Niggle ’ ) . |
| 5 | The execution ended a case which had aroused intense public interest , not least because of strong evidence that Coleman was innocent of the crime of which he had been convicted . |
| 6 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
| 7 | The most striking feature about the Treaty of Rome , however , was the speed with which it had been reached . |
| 8 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 9 | He did not carry the gong with which he had been presented as player of the tournament but Fiji 's captain Waisale Serevi — the nation having defeated the district of Suva 26-0 in the final — is not an individual who requires a calling card . |
| 10 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 11 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 12 | After an hour or so they are given a brief rest by switching the lights off and then they are tested by being given a choice between attempting to follow the light on which they had been imprinted ( say the red ) and another , unfamiliar light , say the yellow . |
| 13 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 14 | The wedding to which I had been invited was taking place in a village church ten miles the other side of Downshurst , a market town eleven miles from my aunt 's cottage . |
| 15 | It would be relatively simple — she could think at once of how it could be done : the casual enquiry of a mutual friend with whom she still exchanged Christmas cards , the phone call to the college at which he had been a lecturer . |
| 16 | Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office . |
| 17 | He could see , moreover , that the Galapagos were much younger than the continent around which he had been travelling . |
| 18 | They wanted to drink , failing a quick thrash with a woman , and then tumble back into the field and race shouting into the forest to make the kill of which they had been unkindly baulked . |
| 19 | From the east , forces under Soviet command had taken Vienna on 13 April and troops of the Third Ukrainian Front under Marshal Tolbukhin were advancing into the eastern part of what it had been agreed would be the British Zone of Austria . |
| 20 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 21 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 22 | The National Front , also , has failed to make the breakthrough for which it had been hoping . |
| 23 | Ms Wilikins did not look too happy with the question for which she had been given no prior notice . |
| 24 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 25 | It was this separation of which he had been afraid . |
| 26 | Harry put down the hairbrush with which he had been trying to smooth his unruly curls , and turned to face Madeleine 's brother . |
| 27 | Instead she glanced about the small chamber off the hall into which she had been ushered , thanking whatever saint had been responsible that de Raimes was apparently going to keep her to himself . |
| 28 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 29 | For such critics Hardy traced an essential parallel with the irregularity of Gothic architecture in which he had been trained , and noted ‘ There is latent music in the sincere utterance of deep emotion , however expressed , which fills the place of the actual word-music in rhythmic phraseology on thinner emotive subjects , or on subjects with next to none at all . ’ |
| 30 | Horst and Jurgen would stand to one side of the diggers and , as each turf was cut and while it was being stacked , they would investigate the hollow from which it had been removed . |