Example sentences of "earlier there had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier there had been reports that actress Julie Walters was having to confront the fact that her child had leukaemia . |
| 2 | About fifty years earlier there had been a murder at Cliff Cottage . |
| 3 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 4 | ‘ Third , ’ the Doctor said , as Bernice whirled to see an open doorway where only seconds earlier there had been a flat wall , ‘ I imagine those androids would prefer us not to attempt to escape , in the TARDIS or in any other way . |
| 5 | ( The first Yugoslav report of unrest in Shkodër had appeared on Dec. 19 , when a Serbian newspaper claimed that a few days earlier there had been an anti-government demonstration involving " a large number of people " . |