Example sentences of "and [adv] [art] [noun] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 2 | What remained of the gardens was now given over to the university 's botany department , and so the building had been able to retain much of its outward character . |
| 3 | And so the lines had been drawn for the battle that still raged , feminists and FAMILY glaring balefully at each other over the dying body of the welfare state . |
| 4 | I suppose she was in the kitchen , perhaps avoiding me , and perhaps the boy had been instructed to entertain me . |
| 5 | Only the Jews were descended from Adam and only the Jews had been contaminated with original sin as a consequence of Eve 's disobedience . |
| 6 | And obviously a decision had been reached . |
| 7 | That was the end of her working , and anyway the money had been peanuts . |
| 8 | Here and there the woods had been cleared and not replanted . |
| 9 | There had been only piecemeal policies of denationalization in 1979–83 , and indeed the Conservatives had been reluctant to replace state monopolies with privately-owned ones . |
| 10 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |