Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senga looked at her quickly , before turning away — perhaps there had been something amusing in one of Mama 's letters . |
| 2 | Perhaps they had been his footsteps they 'd heard above them earlier . |
| 3 | She wore no jewellery , except a gold and platinum twisted ring that some friend had given her , and the heavy signet ring , perhaps it had been her father 's , that weighted one hand . |
| 4 | He was n't one of the grooms himself , though perhaps he had been one , somewhere , sometime . |
| 5 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 6 | If only it had been he instead of Giles who had kissed her in the moonlight . |
| 7 | It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again … |
| 8 | Tonight it had been her turn to give way , but agreeing to spend an hour in the Clarence with Colin and Yvonne did n't extend to any pretence that she actually enjoyed their company . |
| 9 | Yesterday she had been his prisoner . |
| 10 | When he 'd arrived home there had been nothing to eat and not even a bed of his own . |
| 11 | For he loved the stags so dearly/As though he had been their father . |
| 12 | It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion . |
| 13 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 14 | Six months ago it had been her dearest wish that one day he would discuss the great truths of their shared religion with her . |
| 15 | ‘ But by then I had been her slave nearly all my life and I had n't the courage or the guts to say no . |
| 16 | Like Nigel , Alan had retired early , and they had enlarged and modernized — quite beautifully — a cottage nearby which had been their holiday home for many years . |
| 17 | Then there had been nothing — nothing but bare rooms : now there was the semblance of a working facility , even though most of the equipment remained in cases , waiting to be unpacked . |
| 18 | Then there had been plenty , both physical and emotional , but only then . |
| 19 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 20 | When she regained her balance and looked around he — if indeed it had been he — had vanished . |
| 21 | Intimacy , I had learned , can begin in a strange variety of ways , and we now had a relationship where previously there had been nothing . |
| 22 | Yet it had been his own vision , his own analysis , his own solution . |