Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 2 | ‘ A programme like this might be all right if they had a proper documentary on the subject sometimes , but they do n't , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ They said it would be all right if I had the serial numbers but I do n't think they expected me back , ’ she said . |
| 4 | At last , after another million years persuading David she would be all right when she had taken some aspirin , she was alone , in her own flat . |
| 5 | The Beggar 's view is , reasonably , that Hoccleve 's income should be enough even though he had a wife , and has by marrying her , cut off the possibility of a career in the Church . |
| 6 | Well , I was n't prepared to believe that my career would be over almost before it had started . |
| 7 | What would it be like though if I had n't got my eleven appointments ? |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose he 'd be here now if you had n't quarrelled , ’ said Betty with the glancing brutality of those with some intuition but not much intelligence . |
| 9 | ‘ My father always used to say that it would n't be that long before you had your own shop , so I thought … ’ |
| 10 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 11 | Now there was an are n't somewhere that you had . |
| 12 | after being down there and he had one and he was talking to his mates when and he was going do think this 'll do me any good ? |
| 13 | They were nearer tonight than they had ever been . |
| 14 | And I remember when I was a nipper , er er being up there and they had , they always had a box in the back of their caravan where they kept two or three hens , and , and , and er they used to have this game bird . |
| 15 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 16 | This is so even though it had absolutely no contractual effect and operated to non-one 's detriment . |
| 17 | It 's so long since I had people to dinner . |
| 18 | Er it 's not like if you had a lot of people in the flats who were all working up at for example , you 'd have a lot more kind of community spirit going , and a lot , and a lot more common erm feeling , I think , between people . |
| 19 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 20 | It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything . |
| 21 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 22 | The brief moment of semi-unity in Spain was over almost before it had begun . |
| 23 | She was just there because she had n't er had n't passed away . |
| 24 | It was not exactly that he had pressed and she had invited . |
| 25 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 26 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 27 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 28 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 29 | It was not long before she had left home and was on the road . |
| 30 | It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph , as a junior clerk . |