Example sentences of "had be [adv] [adj] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been pleasantly surprised to find that , after years when nobody had bothered to find out , political control over the investment decisions was more direct than anyone had realized . |
| 2 | It had been so easy to assume that the Tarvarians were human because they acted like men . |
| 3 | It had only been her bank book , and Edward had been quite right to say that it was not worth reading . |
| 4 | But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention . |
| 5 | Once she had visited a friend who had a room in a house in North London ; she had accompanied her friend into the small back garden , and had been deeply shocked to find that the walls dividing the row of small terraced gardens were only two feet high . |