Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That of course had not been his prime reason for going to Rhodes . |
| 2 | In fact Irina at the cottage door had not been his first sighting . |
| 3 | By all accounts , or at least by his wife 's , that had not been his first concern . |
| 4 | However , this had not been his original intention . |
| 5 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 6 | Economics had always been his strong point , and his family had expected him to go into Parliament . |
| 7 | The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe , Michigan , and sang to the heavens , ‘ If I can help somebody , as I go along , then my living will not be in vain … . ’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words . |