Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leitzig pointed to the rows of steel containers submerged in the water , and described how they had been transported to the plant in 100 tonne flasks with walls fourteen inches thick . |
| 2 | DERBYSHIRE 'S Steve Goldsmith switched on his car radio yesterday — and found out he had been sacked ! |
| 3 | ‘ From what we understand she heard a pop and that is when she noticed the pain in her back and found out she had been shot , ’ the officer said . |
| 4 | In March computer and information services specialists from all over Scotland and Tyneside converged on the Stirling Management Centre to see the CWIS in action and to hear how it had been put together . |
| 5 | What had been wildly romantic to begin with turned into something else over the years , although I could always look at him and remember why I had been so stricken . |
| 6 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 7 | Of course , I had no idea whether these ladies were right or wrong , but the revelation of fragments of past lives helped me come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . |
| 8 | ‘ The revelation of these fragments of past lives helped me to come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . ’ |
| 9 | At first she did not , then she remembered Oliver 's parting words to Tim in the rue du Bateau and understood how they had been interpreted . |
| 10 | The sermon he preached was scholarly , and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy . |
| 11 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |