Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] had be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not easy , even for a German captain , to intervene at this stage , but once he had been subjected to a long discussion and much persuasion , he contacted the SS in Tabiano and managed to have us set free . |
| 2 | But although they had been settled for the moment the two great political problems of the next half-century had already been foreshadowed : first , the tensions within the Angevin family ; second , the feudal question of the relationship between lord and vassal , between Capetian and Angevin . |
| 3 | But although she had been standing there just a moment before , there was no sign of Izzie . |
| 4 | But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with . |
| 5 | But if he had been murdered ? |
| 6 | But if it had been irradiated , well , let us put it this way , I would n't buy food if I knew it was irradiated . |
| 7 | This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe . |
| 8 | Some of the patients with a curve in excess of 100° were no longer able to sit because of the pelvic obliquity consequent on the scoliosis ; they were bedridden not because of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy itself but because they had been allowed to develop such extensive spinal curves before referral to an orthopaedic muscle clinic . |
| 9 | Three months later he was seized with chest pain , but because he had been told that his coronary artery was normal he developed an irresistible desire to chop wood . |
| 10 | She was horrified ; not only because she could see how Beth had thoroughly exhausted herself , but because she had been taken on two weeks ago by Mr Miller , who had told her categorically , ‘ I do n't want Mrs Miller tackling any of the heavier domestic tasks , you understand ? |
| 11 | But since it had been adopted , the Councillor mentioned above was able to get approval for a motion acknowledging that the Education Committee had voted to close the school on grounds incompatible with its own policy . |
| 12 | But since he had been invited in his own right , he would go . |
| 13 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 14 | But after he had been lost he was brought home again . |
| 15 | Stephen owed his election as ban in 1322 to the Bogomils , but after he had been persuaded by the Hungarian king to submit to Rome , the Bogomils looked to Tsar Dušan of Serbia for help . |
| 16 | But when they had been greeted with expressions of total derision and distaste , I realized that she was still not ready to come to terms with full womanly depth of her unacknowledged feelings . |
| 17 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |