Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever had washed up last night had n't cleaned the cooker , there was no light-bulb in the one cell in the basement and someone had had to be dispatched to wake up the ironmonger because nobody could find a spare . |
| 2 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 3 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 4 | He had tried to protect her from what could be a nasty piece of family history , he reminded himself , and she had refused to be protected . |
| 5 | Paddy Kennedy , an RLP councillor who was himself taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs , said that he had seen Fitt fall to the ground and he had appeared to be on his knees when he was struck by a baton . |
| 6 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 7 | Well when i I had that used to cost sixpence , but you 'd got to be properly dressed afore you went I tell you . |
| 8 | But she had longed to be with him one more time . |
| 9 | She might be proud , but she had learned to be provident ! |
| 10 | But she had ceased to be surprised , or even confused , by the constantly changing facets of Alexander Vass . |
| 11 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 12 | Rehearsals on the Sheffield play did n't actually begin till two days later , but she 'd promised to be there as soon as she could to discuss make-up with the director . |
| 13 | She was a hard-nosed bitch , but she 'd had to be , to survive . |
| 14 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 15 | Mr Bouverie was a solicitor , Peter said , but he had wanted to be a priest , had intended to try for ordination if cancer had not prevented it . |
| 16 | She wanted to hurt the man who had told her Rob had n't come back , but he had tried to be kind and anyway she could n't think clearly . |
| 17 | Graham still bore the mental scars of his tragedy but he had proved to be an excellent operative and Philpott had no intention of letting him go . |
| 18 | what he can say that he 'd go with her but he 'd had to be back , sort of , by four cos he 's going out with you he says that , that 'll get him out of it then wo n't he ? |
| 19 | It was the First World War that finally killed off the " legion of Leagues " , but it had ceased to be a problem before 1914 . |
| 20 | But what had promised to be a happy greeting turned to a strained departure — tonight Adisa was taken onto hospital although she 's since been allowed to leave and join other refugees in Northampton . |