Example sentences of "and [vb base] [conj] [pron] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 2 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 3 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 4 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 5 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 6 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 7 | I would look at it again , and see if it had been totally destroyed . |
| 8 | unless he was looking around and see if it had been bumped in the night |