Example sentences of "it had be [vb pp] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended . |
| 2 | Apparently it had been placed there in the pre-dawn . |
| 3 | It had been placed there when Mr Blakey had finished in the garden . |
| 4 | We have recent evidence that the Conservative Party at least is willing to forgive , and once it had been accepted there was no question of the betrayal of any secrets , it would have been a simple matter of marital infidelity . |
| 5 | Another surprise was that the helium-3 was not distributed uniformly throughout the metal , but appeared to be highly concentrated in small clusters as if it had been formed there . |
| 6 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 7 | She had n't known what it meant then , but now she knew it had been inscribed there just for her . |
| 8 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
| 9 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
| 10 | Perhaps it had been driven there by a storm . |