Example sentences of "how it had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found all the little bits and pieces , the er , er , idiosyncrasies of how it had been prepared previously by yourself , |
| 2 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 3 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 4 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 5 | The missing reliquary , it seemed , was back where it belonged , just as a witness had been found who could and would confirm exactly how it had been made to disappear . |
| 6 | Stains on fabric and leather had yielded to chemical analysis to reveal the exact chemical components of the explosive ; the extent of burn- and impact-deterioration had shown him how much was used , where it had been placed and how it had been triggered . |
| 7 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was allowed to go West again after 20 years , two years ago , I could n't believe how it had been transformed . |
| 9 | There were many theories about how it had been carried out and who had been the accomplices . |
| 10 | In March computer and information services specialists from all over Scotland and Tyneside converged on the Stirling Management Centre to see the CWIS in action and to hear how it had been put together . |