Example sentences of "[pron] had be [prep] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 2 | Although she was reasonably sure that Harry was still in love with her , she was concerned at all the talk there had been about him marrying the American girl . |
| 3 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 4 | He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt . |
| 5 | What had been in it lay ahead of her . |