Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For at least two minutes there had been silence , and a hope grew in her . |
| 2 | A convalescent home was needed , so I got permission to use two houses which had been the homes of senior staff of the Bombay Burma Trading Company . |
| 3 | Indeed , one of the first die links ever published drew attention to the surprising use of the same die on two coins which had been thought to be of different mints . |
| 4 | She named the same two hand-maids who had been with me on my first visit . |
| 5 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 6 | The two guards who had been holding him released him and stood back . |
| 7 | Not realising that the documents on discharge and assessment had been produced in a hurry to meet the government 's suddenly imposed deadline of 31 December , he criticised the two weeks he had been given to consult his 200 consultant colleagues . |
| 8 | He stated that he had later spoken to two observers who had been close to the ridge at the time of the accident , and they had apparently noticed that the wind had , momentarily , markedly increased in strength and had appeared to swirl up the hill towards the ridge , coincidental with the time that they saw the aircraft 's wing drop and the aircraft begin to descend . |
| 9 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 10 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 11 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 12 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 13 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 14 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |
| 15 | For the past two days he had been saying so to all who would listen . |
| 16 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 17 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 18 | Here we go again , said everyone , and they were right ; on the first two days there had been plenty of cloud to help the bowlers , but on the Saturday the sun shone and West Indies made the most of it . |
| 19 | Two figures who had been walking ahead of them , suddenly turned and came sauntering back . |
| 20 | The excitement was too much for my two sisters who had been left to look after me . |
| 21 | Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens . |
| 22 | At the sixth round of Premiers ' talks held in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Feb. 19-20 , Premier Yon Hyong Muk of North Korea and Prime Minister Chung Won Shik of South Korea , formally exchanged signed copies of the Agreement on Reconciliation , Non-aggression and Co-operation between the South and the North and the Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula , thus bringing into effect the terms of the two accords which had been reached in talks between the two sides in December 1991 [ see pp. 38659-60 ] . |
| 23 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 24 | Sherman and Austin were two chimpanzees who had been trained to use a computer keyboard in which the keys carried lexigrams ( geometric patterns ) which related to items ( e.g. JUICE , SWEET POTATO ) or simple activities ( e.g. GIVE , GET , CHASE ) . |
| 25 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 26 | On July 6 Cuomo had agreed to make the formal nominating speech for Clinton , apparently dispelling the ill-feeling between the two men which had been evident in the early stages of the campaign . |
| 27 | Slowly , like a black storm cloud that builds up ominously on a distant horizon , the second of the two Men who had been feeding the eagles advanced on Woil . |
| 28 | As they entered the little hall , two detectives who had been playing cards swept their cards off the table like schoolboys caught in the act . |
| 29 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 30 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |