Example sentences of "had be [prep] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 2 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 3 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 4 | A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 . |
| 5 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 6 | They then lost Gatting , who had been in better form than anyone , in the first one-day international when his nose exploded after coming into contact with a ball from Marshall that he failed to hook . |
| 7 | The barrier had been in perfect order when I arrived — boards secure , nailheads flush — so through I 'd come , tugging it all closed behind me . |
| 8 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 9 | Leader of the ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform movement that was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968 , Dubcek was 70 when he died in Prague , and had been in intensive care after his car plunged off a road in heavy rain on September 1 . |