Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , at the time of the accident the deceased was a lawful visitor on the premises , since the brewery had not given the deceased any indication that the permission they had given him to be on the premises expired at 10.30 p.m . |
| 2 | The Earl Marischal , who had supposed himself to be in charge , immediately yielded his position to Tullibardine , though retaining command of the ships which had brought them there . |
| 3 | Nails wanted to ride Lucky Lady Firelight … he had said something about being in the team . |
| 4 | ‘ A blow on behalf of the ordinary universe ’ Golding once called his own fiction in a BBC interview , explaining what he had thought himself to be about when he wrote Pincher Martin . |
| 5 | Charlotte Ladram was more obviously nervous than he had known her to be on any previous occasion and professed herself reluctant to remain indoors , let alone cook a meal . |
| 6 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |