Example sentences of "had [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his amazement , the very results that he had been after for several years were achieved . |
| 2 | She learned with sadness in her heart that their recent one night of love had been after he had met a young Vietnamese man . |
| 3 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 4 | That had been before she had declined to become his wife . |
| 5 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 6 | In short , said the doomsayers , the Middle East would be much worse off than it had been before the American-led coalition drove Iraq 's army out of Kuwait . |
| 7 | But that had been before he had heard of the shootings . |
| 8 | That is to say , scholars have assumed that around 1550 the English language became much more convergent than it had been before even though there can be no direct evidence that spoken English did become more convergent . |
| 9 | Because the horror of the garden-master puppet belonged mostly to someone else now , to the person she had been before she saw that meanings were the most important thing in the worlds . |
| 10 | He would go to sleep and I would lie there with tears running down my face thinking how good it had been before the baby came . |
| 11 | So Mr went up and er he went a way up the hill , places that never a car or anything like that had been before because there were gullies and everything and he could have sank in the middle of a gully or something . |
| 12 | He was far more suspicious of her now than he had been before she 'd told him about Dana , and he still thought she was Garry 's lover . |
| 13 | It was better this way ; somehow she would manage to see Dana before Roman did , and then she would leave and take up her life as it had been before she had met Roman almost a week ago . |
| 14 | He 'd done it again , she thought morosely , yet for a while , back there in the field , she 'd felt almost like her old self , the person she had been before Ryan had come into her life . |
| 15 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 16 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 17 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 18 | But that had been before she had met Adam Burns ! |
| 19 | The tall house on Thrush Green had been but sparsely furnished for the young couple had great aspirations but little money , and most of the furniture was solid Victorian stuff given by their parents . |
| 20 | The stillness at dawn had been but a prelude . |
| 21 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 22 | He was clearly far more remote from the succession than William III , or at least his wife , had been but he was a Protestant and he duly landed at Greenwich on 18 September 1714 , with two mistresses in tow , both very plain . |
| 23 | Although Grant was the expert of the group , they both knew enough to realise that the equipment stacked around was sophisticated , and far too much for Titron if she had been but an ordinary container ship . |
| 24 | ‘ It must be the full moon , ’ Lee grumbled , melting butter in a saucepan , and then remembered that the moon had been but a sliver the previous night . |
| 25 | She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved . |
| 26 | ( B ) in their design office and the three defendants ( A ) were officials of the A.E.S.D. Union , two of them also being employees of B.O.A.C. C had been but was no longer a member of the Union . |
| 27 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 28 | The problem had been that there was no ceremony the first time around . |
| 29 | Haines himself admitted that as an outsider his preconception had been that the Jockey Club was ‘ An old-fashioned , creaking organisation of part-timers . ’ |
| 30 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |