Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had all appeared to be like men when they were sixteen , especially Mick . |
| 2 | erm , and Martin and Den had already volunteered to be in it , |
| 3 | Graham had already budgeted on being in Martigny ten minutes prior to the train 's scheduled arrival so when he reached the station he found he actually had an hour to kill . |
| 4 | The prosperity of the Catalan economy had thus come to be at the mercy of events outside Spain . |
| 5 | Lesley 's elder brother Dave , 34 , said last night : ‘ She had always wanted to be in uniform and had been in the Wrens . |
| 6 | ‘ But she had always wanted to be in uniform , so eventually became a policewoman . |
| 7 | But again , it had always got to be from the Co-op , because it had come through mum you see , really and er sh I say she is eighty-two . |
| 8 | Wilson , Lloyd George and Clemençeau , wrote an observer a year or two later , " were in the conduct of public affairs more imperious than any Caesar had ever dared to be in any empire , pagan or Christian " . |