Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [adj] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 2 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 3 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 4 | To lie in bed wakeful had always been intolerable to him . |
| 5 | He did n't know how to cope with someone who was nice to him all the time because all the other people that he knew best ( including his parents ) had always been unkind to him . |
| 6 | He had always been close to her . |
| 7 | But Jane had always been close to her mother and , almost inevitably , there came an evening when Mrs Connachan inadvertently prised open the floodgates . |
| 8 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 9 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 10 | A country that had once been central to itself was on the periphery : it needed to become central again . |
| 11 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 12 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 13 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 14 | Comfort had never been important to him . |