Example sentences of "[adv] it had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it had been placed there in the pre-dawn . |
| 2 | Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village . |
| 3 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 4 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 5 | He 'd been married , of course , and in those days perhaps it had been frowned upon for a married man to be friendly with a young girl , but that 's all it had been — friendship . |
| 6 | Perhaps it had been driven there by a storm . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm so it had been thought about quite seriously . |
| 9 | On any programme hitherto it had been accepted that the period between preliminary design and introduction to service could be as long as 15 years . |
| 10 | Glenda Grower 's hair , auburn and shiny , was normally tied in a neat bun at the back of her head , but tonight it had been allowed to stream glamorously down her back . |
| 11 | Though far too small for me , the bike had been saved to be passed on to Cymbeline ; somehow it had been overlooked in the purge . |
| 12 | Other recommendations included the complete withdrawal of allegations against detainees held without trial with a " clear and unequivocal apology for the wrongs they have suffered " and financial compensation for all victims of abuse whether or not it had been proved that they were agents of the South African government . |
| 13 | Meanwhile it had been fitted to many warships and liners , including the Scandinavian and Lusitania . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was black , as if once it had been varnished ; and this gave it a sheen of its own . |
| 16 | More common , of course , is the situation where the media is in possession of material which it knows the Attorney-General would be able to injunct ( normally on grounds of breach of confidence ) but would be unlikely to pursue once it had been published . |
| 17 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
| 18 | But when this rain came down , it was like it had been sent to stop it you know . |
| 19 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 20 | A SECRETARY spent a night sitting in her car after discovering at 2am it had been clamped . |
| 21 | Five years later it had been reduced to £212,000 . |
| 22 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 23 | Now it had been joined by several cars and a coach was disgorging a gaggle of tourists . |
| 24 | Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall . |
| 25 | Whilst pondering on the history of the town and how often it had been conquered and invaded , he struck upon the idea of fashioning a wonderful head of brass that could speak and was omniscient . |
| 26 | Gironella 's solution was entirely individual : to focus on the art of the European past , looming large as it did in Latin American consciousness regardless of how often it had been declared dead and buried by Europeans . |
| 27 | Originally it had been planned that the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel should be painted a secco in oil , but he insisted on carrying out the work al fresco since he considered oil painting to be only ‘ fit for women and slovenly people ’ ! |
| 28 | Originally it had been planned to convert five oil/gas-fired power stations to coal but this programme has been cut to three . |
| 29 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 30 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |