Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Baby had been here , Dot remembered how she had yearned to be with him , amongst those quiet children so calm in their tidy beds . |
| 2 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 3 | It was quite simply that she had wanted to be with him . |
| 4 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 5 | When she was two years old she had seemed to be of a cheerful disposition and laughed obediently when he made a witch out of his knotted handkerchief or cast a swan 's shadow against her bedroom wall with his fingers . |
| 6 | She looked away from him , a faint blush beginning at her jawline , and he knew she was referring to the fact that he had not betrayed her , even though he knew she had lied about being with her mother in Wales . |
| 7 | She had offered to be at New Scotland Yard by nine-thirty and it was now nine forty-five . |
| 8 | But she had longed to be with him one more time . |
| 9 | Instead she found herself remembering things she had disliked about the flat — the row of closed doors in the long dark passage , the kitchen looking out on to a brick wall , the occasional stiflingly hot summer evening when she had longed to be in the country . |