Example sentences of "and [adv] [pers pn] had be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past year she had had various painful illnesses and eventually it had been diagnosed as a recurrence of cancer . |
| 2 | He had left the army as a major , but the clerks in the Horse Guards had determined that his majority was only brevet rank , not regimental , and so he had been forced to accept a lieutenant 's pension . |
| 3 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 4 | The house had become far too large and expensive to maintain for Aunt Lou and so it had been altered , the top half being made into a separate flat on the first floor and a studio apartment created in the former attics . |
| 5 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 6 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 7 | We have recent evidence that the Conservative Party at least is willing to forgive , and once it had been accepted there was no question of the betrayal of any secrets , it would have been a simple matter of marital infidelity . |
| 8 | And yesterday she had been proved right . |
| 9 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 10 | And now he had been made to pay for what he had done . |
| 11 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 12 | Everyone made mistakes and today she had been mistaken . |
| 13 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 14 | The smaller man was hit first , and then the taller man had seemed to move across to him , and then he had been hit . |
| 15 | He and his uncle had visited the Governor in Asba Tafari and there they had been detained as hostages for the good behaviour of the Asaimara ; his uncle 's refusal to guarantee my safety in Bahdu had led to my recall . |
| 16 | Finally they told me where they had been and how they had been ushered into a sort of waiting room by the proprietress , who had endeavoured to make them feel at ease by offering them marrons glacés . |
| 17 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 18 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 19 | Stains on fabric and leather had yielded to chemical analysis to reveal the exact chemical components of the explosive ; the extent of burn- and impact-deterioration had shown him how much was used , where it had been placed and how it had been triggered . |
| 20 | Twice Yin Tsu had thought to link his line with kings , and twice he had been denied that honour . |
| 21 | For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht . |
| 22 | My Lord the plaintiff 's case , as you can appreciate , is that Mr had very clearly , on several occasions in mid October , er requested a way out of this contract there was a way out er under the terms of the contract by service of special notice to complete erm and yet he had been told that there was no way that they could withdraw from the contract . |
| 23 | By then Tony Elliott was rumbling along and previously It had been providing that function . ’ |
| 24 | Seeing his ineffectual bumbling , Jezrael wondered how much use he could be , and why he had been made . |
| 25 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
| 26 | ‘ And therefore you had been conceived behind the closed gates of that dreadful other Ireland . |
| 27 | It is five years since Microsoft originally launched PowerPoint for the Mac and recently it had been outperformed by Aldus Persuasion and CA-Cricket Presents . |