Example sentences of "us had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of us had been promoted out of any efficiency that we might have had . |
| 2 | None of us had been outside the camp for many months and every field seemed infinite and exciting . |
| 3 | Then the toilet flushed and we wrenched violently apart , as though each of us had been struggling to get free all along . |
| 4 | ‘ If neither of us had been here she would have gone her time . ’ |
| 5 | The trouble was , neither of us had been here before and Holyhead Mountain in the gathering gloom emphatically had the last laugh . |
| 6 | Some of us had been trying to make our voices heard against Saddam through the long years when he was hugger-mugger with every leader of the western world . |
| 7 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |
| 8 | All of them had served in Lebanon and Chad , and each of them had a minimum of three years ' service , which meant that when they had done their basic training the violence they were employing with us had been the norm . |
| 9 | It was no longer so easy to remain an island of reason when every timber surrounding us had been magically selected ; when our departure had been synchronized not with the weather , but with inner portents of another kind of time . |
| 10 | If any one of us had been touching a wall above ground we 'd have been part of the bloody architecture by now . ’ |
| 11 | It was the first time that one of us had been seriously ill . |
| 12 | In the lorry with the rest of us had been five members of the Gandini family , which left one of the sons still free . |
| 13 | Sergeant Allen Jenkins was disappointed that none of us had been pancaked under rubble , but quickly learned to live with it . |
| 14 | Neither of us had been prepared for this sudden release of feeling ; Edward seemed embarrassed by the confession , I embarrassed by his embarrassment , and regretting my earlier ungenerous thoughts … |
| 15 | The three of us had been going to spend the evening together but Buffy had slipped off . |
| 16 | Most of us had been born in the mining community . |