Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] had [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I had n't been shutting the one that do n't make no difference still , there 's only cos Pavarotti 's out anyway ! |
| 2 | Both Victoria and Albert were delighted with the Emperor 's charm and amiability , but above all they were captivated by Eugènie ‘ the dear , sweet Empress ’ , though the Queen confided to the Emperor that she realized how difficult her role must be for someone who had not been brought up to it . |
| 3 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 4 | The kid gets on his bicycle ; for a few moments he wears the expression of someone who had just been made aware of his own mortality . |
| 5 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |
| 6 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 7 | She was a tall , awkward-looking girl overwhelmed at being close to someone who had long been her idol . |
| 8 | The content varied according to the imagined circumstances but it invariably contained the information that he was a magistrate , an exponent of the martial arts , or someone who had recently been diagnosed as HIV positive and would have no hesitation in biting if attacked . |
| 9 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 11 | On the stable block , in which nothing had ever been stabled in Adam 's memory , was a little tower with a running fox weathervane on it and below the small pitched roof a blue clock with hands of gold . |
| 12 | It was holding a party to which I had not been invited . |
| 13 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 14 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 15 | My tapestries and books were turning into pitch-thick smoke , and the heat , from which I had hitherto been protected , it seems , by the initial surge of adrenalin through my body , now made it plain that this was the last window of opportunity for effecting a dignified , if empty-handed , exit . |
| 16 | The nightmares stopped instantly after this explanation , and I was able to give lectures , stand up for myself and speak in public — all of which I had never been able to do before . ’ |
| 17 | Debbie hesitated , wondering how she could refuse somebody who had just been so helpful ; but she did . |
| 18 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 19 | THE BOUNDARY changes of 1974 gave the name of Tayside to what had been the counties of Perthshire , Kinross-shire and Angus ( which itself had once been known as Forfarshire ) , while Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire became rather drably Central . |
| 20 | I had put a point to the unions concerning long-term pay arrangements on which she had neither been informed nor consulted . |
| 21 | On Oct. 9 a special court in Lahore adjourned a hearing against her , at which she had again been present , reportedly to avoid making a ruling before the Oct. 24 elections . |
| 22 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 23 | She has striking Italian looks , a model height of five feet ten inches and long slim legs — all attributes which she had n't been taking advantage of . |
| 24 | Two weeks before the end of her trial , Winnie Mandela experienced what commentators treated as a major political setback when she was heavily defeated in elections for the national presidency of the ANC women 's league , which she had earlier been expected to win unchallenged . |
| 25 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 26 | At night , she still dreamt of the endless drugged hours she had spent jolting and rolling in the darkness of the car-boot , the hours of motion on land and sea of which she had only been dimly aware . |
| 27 | Back from Egypt for three months I was staying with my aunt in the Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells in which we had both been born . |
| 28 | ‘ Each of us was complaining about the spies ’ equipment with which we had both been issued . |
| 29 | On the other weekdays and at weekends , Father Barnes was expected to look after himself There had never been a job description . |
| 30 | He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy . |