Example sentences of "had be [verb] [adv] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rough fireplace surrounded by stones had been built about two metres in front of it , and grey ash fitted the centre of the ring . |
| 2 | The defendant had been convicted under two different statutes of two offences which both arose out of essentially the same facts . |
| 3 | The only appointment of significance which he had made himself was that of Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor , and that had been done only two days before the beginning of his holiday . |
| 4 | She had been gone nearly two hours and Sara decided that she was not going to walt up for her . |
| 5 | The Harris family had been given just two weeks to find eight thousand pounds in mortgage arrears . |
| 6 | This was on the Monday before the show opened , and the garden had been completed only two hours earlier . |
| 7 | It appears that this bloody bobby had been locked up two or three times . |
| 8 | She was horrified ; not only because she could see how Beth had thoroughly exhausted herself , but because she had been taken on two weeks ago by Mr Miller , who had told her categorically , ‘ I do n't want Mrs Miller tackling any of the heavier domestic tasks , you understand ? |
| 9 | It could n't be simply The History of Wimbledon ( there was a book with that title — it did n't matter that it had been published nearly two hundred years ago ) . |
| 10 | A hole had been dug for the coffin , next to the place where Eileen had been buried only two short years ago , and boards propped the soil up at the sides . |
| 11 | Luckily , our ship was not badly damaged , but we had been driven over two thousand kilometres to the east . |
| 12 | But one prospective licensee contracted by Community Care claimed he had been offered just two days in which to train and meet possible purchasers of his service . |
| 13 | The basic theoretical problem had been to show how two or more autonomous and contradictory totalizations make up one dialectical intelligibility : to do this he needed to totalize the classes in struggle , and to discover the synthetic unity of a conflictual society . |