Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other factor was the assessment by committed federalists and functionalists of exactly what had been achieved . |
| 2 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 3 | The door of the bookcase was open but there were no other signs of how she had been engaged . |
| 4 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 5 | She only knew a fraction of how it had been . |
| 6 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 7 | We found all the little bits and pieces , the er , er , idiosyncrasies of how it had been prepared previously by yourself , |
| 8 | After hearing the boy 's story of how he had been ‘ neglected and abused ’ by his mother Rachel , judge Thomas Kirk told him he could be adopted by his foster parents George and Lizabeth Russ . |
| 9 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 10 | Thus that dappled skin , peeled from a mutant , both reminded him of how he had been orphaned and reproached him too . |
| 11 | Sometimes in the middle of a celebration , Christmas or Easter , she would think of him and the knowledge of how he had been murdered would cast a shadow over everything . |
| 12 | He had been a soldier for almost all his life , but of late he had been a farmer in Normandy , drawn to the land of his enemies by a woman met by chance in the chaos of peace . |
| 13 | They had all , on arrival , been asked to write a brief account of where they had been , and with whom , the previous evening and night . |
| 14 | He also had to be reminded to write to her , which he did ( in later years ) about every six weeks , just a dutiful account of where he had been , what he had done , with little of his usual animation . |
| 15 | In the lounge , Willis and Hemmings were listening to George 's account of where he had been on the nights of the murders and the disappearance . |
| 16 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , there was the more urgent matter of why we had been followed . |
| 18 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |
| 19 | Kate could smell Pears soap and the smell brought back memories of when she had been younger . |
| 20 | She might well have stood too , but he was close by and she had a quick memory of when she had been close up against his body before . |
| 21 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 22 | They did n't fire a response in her , but it felt nice , like when they had been holding hands . |
| 23 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 24 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 25 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 26 | This poverty was all the worse for the general affluence around it , and until now it had been little noticed by the majority . |
| 27 | Until now it had been enough to produce smocks , nightdresses and long dresses in cotton for stores which would carry supplementary ranges by other manufacturers in different departments . |
| 28 | Until now it had been outside her experience … |
| 29 | Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall . |
| 30 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |