Example sentences of "had [adv] be [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 2 | The wearing of beards had long been out of fashion at Rome : as we have seen , the contenders for power at the death of the Republic imitated the clean-shaven kings of the Hellenistic world . |
| 3 | He had often been out of work during the boy ‘ s early years in the west of Sheffield ‘ where the city meanders in a smokey , greasy straggle of workshops into Rotherham ’ . |
| 4 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 5 | Susan , aged 3½ years , had never been out of nappies for passing a motion . |
| 6 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 7 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |