Example sentences of "but [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 2 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 3 | But no-one had been able to match the Lancashire company 's price . |
| 4 | But I had been caught , well and truly , and had paid the price , time and time again . |
| 5 | Not only have I never been mobbed at Sainsbury 's but I had been assured that the likes of Sheridan Morley and Julia Mackenzie would be giving their all . |
| 6 | But I had been sufficiently intrigued by the stories I had heard of William to want to find out . |
| 7 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 8 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 9 | I thanked him , he saluted , and the two of them walked on My guard said that I was crazy ; I could have run into terrible trouble , but I had been lucky and now I had only to choose a beautiful new bicycle . |
| 10 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 11 | He 'd tried to ring me with the good news but I had been out . |
| 12 | The Factory had n't been specific ( it rarely is ) , but I had the feeling that whatever it was warning me about was important , and I also suspected it would be bad , but I had been wise enough to take the hint and check my Poles , and now I knew my aim was still good ; things were still with me . |
| 13 | An Australian Broadcasting Tribunal investigation into Mr Bond 's eligibility to own television stations declared him ‘ not fit and proper ’ and growing stock market unease was accentuated by the disclosure that Mr Bond was trying to sell Van Gogh 's Irises , for which he had paid a record $54million but which had been partially funded by the auctioneer . |
| 14 | The financial savings made possible by Sandys ’ Reformation had been gradually whittled away by escalating equipment costs , and by the need to provide the strategic mobility that his policies had assumed , but which had been inadequately provided for in his costings . |
| 15 | Of course farmers and pastoralists themselves have developed their own and usually effective methods of soil and water conservation which they had evolved themselves and suited their own social relations of production and ecological conditions , but which had been disrupted by the colonial experience ( see Ch. 4 for examples ) . |
| 16 | On 1 November 1950 he declared that Mary had been assumed bodily into heaven — the doctrine of the Assumption , which had no scriptural , or other early Church , warrant , but which had been celebrated liturgically at least from the fourth century and certainly from the fifth . |
| 17 | The restaurant will be in a ground-floor room where Wright had intended to place it , but which had been occupied by the conservation department , ( now relocated , with the museum 's storage facilities , to the city 's West Side ) . |
| 18 | The author was born in Kronstadt , part of the ethnic German enclave in Transylvania — a region which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the century but which had been handed over to Romania after World War I. Faced by the prospect of conscription into the Romanian army in World War II , the author volunteered for the Waffen-SS . |
| 19 | The courts were re-organized and criminal offences re-classified , reforms which affected large numbers of people , but which had been achieved with a minimum of political controversy . |
| 20 | On 14 March 1643 he petitioned the House of Lords for payment for 300 barrels of gunpowder which he had shipped from Amsterdam , but which had been confiscated by Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v. ] , for use by the parliamentary armies . |
| 21 | The budget proposal was also assailed for including measures which had been suggested by the Reagan adminstration but which had been abandoned after their rejection by Congress . |
| 22 | The new excise rate proposals replaced the compulsory uniform rates which it had originally proposed in 1987 , but which had been rejected by nearly all member countries . |
| 23 | The budget was smaller , however , than the 7,700 million ECU which the Commission had originally proposed , but which had been seen as excessive by the UK , Spain and the Netherlands . |
| 24 | Deleted from the guidelines were certain provisions which had appeared in previous drafts but which had been strongly criticized by media executives as amounting to censorship ; these would have prohibited reporters from approaching military officials unannounced , and banned dissemination of pictures showing troops in agony or severe shock . |
| 25 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 26 | The most immediate effect of the ruling was that legislation enacted in a number of states ( including Alabama , Idaho , Kansas , Maine , and North Dakota ) which continued similar provisions to those within the Pennsylvania law , but which had been beset by legal challenges , would almost certainly be declared constitutional . |
| 27 | He also referred to US intelligence operations which , he said , he would have presented as evidence in his defence but which had been suppressed . |
| 28 | The single-storey grey stone building stood amid fields where vines and figs used to grow in abundance , but which had been left to run wild and were now covered in bright carpets of wild flowers . |
| 29 | But somebody had been there much later , there was no doubt about that , and I had a sore spot on my head to prove it . |
| 30 | But somebody had been there overnight . |