Example sentences of "[conj] peter had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were even prepared to make allowances for the fact that Peter had been an appallingly neglectful father . |
| 2 | One Tuesday Janice noticed that Peter had been pushing and shoving Laura during singing . |
| 3 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 4 | Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt . |
| 5 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 6 | The youngsters , Peter and Nona , had been hurt by blast and Peter had been burnt in the back , but they had come off lightly . |
| 7 | Now Marc Alexander Vila moved closer , and she found herself surreptitiously pressing back against the stone wall of the turret room she and Peter had been allotted , trying to pretend she did n't care while her breath went ragged with apprehension . |
| 8 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |