Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the south coast had been raided only a few years earlier , this action is understandable , and it also indicates a measure of political awareness among the peasant class . |
| 2 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 3 | In an interview with the Guardian when his dummy had been published almost a year previously , he had specifically said the paper ‘ would not pay £40,000 wages ’ . |
| 4 | Voting had been suspended only a few hours after polling began , because of " premeditated acts of sabotage " , according to Ismaila Nimaga , Minister of Public Security and Territorial Administration . |
| 5 | The Allied line had been pushed forward an average of 823m/900yds and , at the farthest , near Langemarck , about 1.6km/1ml . |
| 6 | Smith first came across the Academy 's prize problem ( Box B ) when browsing through their Comptes Rendus in February 1882 , though the problem had been posed almost a year earlier . |
| 7 | The first raider had been downed only a short while earlier by Archie McKellar , who saw the attacker crash into the Lothians . |
| 8 | Panic set in — a teenage boy who had appeared in a film for US TV had been murdered just a couple of months before . |
| 9 | His musical memory was so acute that he once confounded a friend of his father 's , the court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner , by insisting that Schachtner 's violin had been tuned exactly an eighth of a tone ( a tiny but noticeable fraction ) lower than Wolfgang 's own when he had last heard it — a fact that the astonished Schachtner was able to verify . |
| 10 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |