Example sentences of "had [adv] be [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her friendship with Antonia apart , she had always been something of a loner and her peers now looked at her slightly askance . |
| 2 | To Branson , Chris Blackwell had always been something of a role-model — someone whose achievements were to be emulated , but also surpassed . |
| 3 | There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it . |
| 4 | Rex had always been something of a ‘ leg man ’ and very much of a ‘ foot man ’ . |
| 5 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 6 | The first part of Kemp 's day had probably been something like this : |
| 7 | Just before this , there had indeed been something of a re-enactment of 1963 , with demonstrations in the holy city of Qom ending in shooting ; processions elsewhere in sympathy with those killed ; and the imposition of martial law . |
| 8 | Then she found herself concluding that her earlier assumption had probably been correct and that there had indeed been someone in Australia , someone who had caused him to return to England in a hurry . |
| 9 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 10 | Since then , his father had told both Thorkel and Otkel to take his son Paul with them whenever there was prospect of fighting , but there had never been anything worth speaking of , except an Icelandic trader who had n't paid his toll and had to be stopped in the Firth , or , once , a small flotilla of ships from Ireland that had fled when they saw them . |
| 11 | He accepted that there had never been anything of a romantic or sexual nature between her and Florian . |
| 12 | It did not strike her , for she was a modest and , on the whole , an outward-looking woman , that she had never been anything but kind to Alida Thorne . |
| 13 | Why had she married a dirty type like Boyd , to spawn a boy like Hank , who had never been anything but a damned nuisance to her ? |