Example sentences of "her had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little by little everything that was most English about her had been eroded and all she had left of it was her honesty , her natural courtesy and a slight reserve she could not entirely eliminate . |
| 2 | Repeated attempts to salvage her had been made up to 1840 , CH 1 . |
| 3 | For the last few weeks the baby inside her had been making itself felt . |
| 4 | Bill 's instructions to her had been simple . |
| 5 | His interest in her had been obvious , and because of that she had discouraged it . |
| 6 | Deep inside her had been awakened a nameless , primitive fear that at first had ached away in the background , but slowly had grown more evident , more pronounced , like a stared-at , half-perceived figure in the shadowy corner of a bedroom . |
| 7 | His anxiety for her had been displaced by a greater worry — was that possible ? |
| 8 | Mandy 's parents had been understandably concerned at her friendship with Mark , but their demands on her had been bordering on the unreasonable . |
| 9 | The cop who 'd collected her had been a crowd control unit , the full cyborg . |
| 10 | Practically his first request to her had been to ask her to clean his shoes ! ) |
| 11 | Toddler walks with her had been a superhuman test of patience as she squatted by every puddle , slowly stirring the water with sticks , and picked up myriads of stones , tenderly brushing them free of earth and inserting them with infinite laboriousness into pockets already grinding with pebbles . |
| 12 | His contempt for her had been occasioned , as Ellie understood it , by her father 's disdain for Madame 's previous occupation as an actress , since , as he said , he had always held the theatre to be nothing but a den of iniquity . |
| 13 | Grainne had nodded , and she had done as she was told , but deep within her had been a spurt of anger , for when had Dierdriu ever borne loss , when had Dierdriu ever lost a lover ? |
| 14 | Not one single thing she had brought with her had been left untouched . |
| 15 | She did n't like the sound of the ‘ second skin' bit at all , and the way he had kidnapped her had been terrifying . |
| 16 | She did n't answer , for the simple reason that she could n't think of anything to say because the smile he had given her had been so totally unlike any other he had turned in her direction , so warm , and devastating , crinkling his eyes … |
| 17 | The longing he 'd kindled within her had been for love — his love . |
| 18 | The first time he 'd seen her had been at Dave 's , and Dave had kept a possessive arm round her all evening , warning others away . |
| 19 | The food to which Agnes Diggory led her had been welcome , however , and she had chosen to consume it in the friendly housekeeper 's little pantry next to the kitchen , rather than risk encountering Miss Merchiston once again tonight . |
| 20 | That he could let her go so easily was the final damning proof that his interest in her had been prompted by solely mercenary considerations . |
| 21 | His encounters with her had been much closer than her own , and from an entirely different angle . |
| 22 | And the years when she had had no-one to look after her had been disastrous . |
| 23 | Lord Sands in Murray v IRC at p138 stated : Now , that would be a sound view [ the view that expenses could not be deducted ( author 's insertion ) ] no doubt if any expenses that were incurred before any payment was made to her had been expenses incurred by somebody she had employed to collect the money , because then these expenses would have been her expenses if they had been incurred by someone whom she was free to employ or not to employ . |
| 24 | as if the kiss he had forced from her had been forgotten , he released her and swivelled , abruptly leaving her so that she had to follow like a servant at his heels . |
| 25 | As she lay blinking blindly into the unfamiliar darkness , her ears filled with a strange background hum , her tired and sleepy brain slowly realised that the sound which had awoken her had been her own desperate sobbing . |
| 26 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |
| 27 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 28 | Keeping everything from her had been incredibly tough , particularly since Candy was highly adept at winkling out secrets , but Adam had been completely inflexible on the subject . |
| 29 | All the tenderness he 'd shown her had been nothing more than a sham , just a front to convince the interested public that they were lovers . |
| 30 | The attraction he had felt to her had been instant . |