Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 2 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
| 3 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 4 | I had already been to the dinner party . |
| 5 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 6 | ‘ I guess it was a big gamble to turn my back on Neighbours but I felt I had already been in the show too long , ’ says Kristian , who will still be seen in the soap in Britain for another 12 months . |
| 7 | Fortunately I had already been in touch with the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , whose representative I met by chance on their stand in an exhibition marquee during Environment Week . |
| 8 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 9 | I had never been to the Broads . |
| 10 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 11 | I had never been to Asia before and really did n't know what to expect . |
| 12 | I had never been to Rome or indeed to Italy before . |
| 13 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 14 | I had never been with a killer before . |
| 15 | As he added : ‘ I had never been with anyone who was always so very , very funny . ’ |
| 16 | I had never been on a glacier before . |
| 17 | I had never been on the Upper West Side before , but it still reminded me of something . |
| 18 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 19 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 20 | I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal . |
| 21 | I had never been in one before . |
| 22 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |
| 23 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 24 | I had never been in the lift since moving — either it was out of order or I could smell the putrid stench seeping out into the lobby and avoided it . |
| 25 | I had always been under the impression that home breeding was unsuccessful , until I read an account of a breeding success by a Mr. Werner Nowak of Montreal . |
| 26 | Perhaps I had always been in love with him . |
| 27 | I had long been in favour of CVRs but like many other people I was very dissatisfied with the quality , particularly the clarity of the only really useful part of the recording — that from the area microphone on the first channel . |
| 28 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 29 | I had only been in the force five weeks . |
| 30 | I had only been in prison eight days . |