Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sparked immediate criticism that the MMC regulations requiring Bass to free pubs from the tie or sell them had been by-passed . |
| 2 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 3 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 4 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 5 | They were both attacked , one having a violent headache , the other being possessed as I now realised I had been . |
| 6 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 7 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 8 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 10 | But , having heard I had been invited , Robin persuaded me to accept , saying he was going to meet a trainer friend there who would know all the winners . |
| 11 | THE KITCHEN was a large stone-floored room whose low ceiling seemed to trap the heat of the stove and hold cooking smells long after the meal that created them had been forgotten . |
| 12 | Early Medieval peoples were not , as the Empires which had preceded them had been , living in slave states ( though one people might be in subjugation to another ) . |
| 13 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 14 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 15 | If they did n't leave the shed door properly shut , Mrs Wright would know someone had been in . |
| 16 | ‘ How did you know someone had been strangling me if everyone else in there was willing to believe I 'd had a fit ? ’ |
| 17 | The fields were spread thick with buttercups and the may blossom which had been particularly plentiful this year was beginning to turn and fall . |
| 18 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 19 | A debt you did n't know you had was best not argued with . |
| 20 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 21 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 22 | The new pleading , so far as relevant to the claim against the building society , constituted ( i ) a plea of non est factum based on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know she had been appointed attorney and did not know she was signing a transfer of the property ; ( ii ) a plea that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |
| 23 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 24 | She must know she had been overheard . |
| 25 | We interviewed Pascoe again today and he mentioned you had been to see him . |
| 26 | A MOTHER who returned home to find she had been burgled , collapsed and died minutes after the discovery . |
| 27 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 28 | ‘ The club gave us a presentation because they looked into their records and found we had been members the longest , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 29 | As it was , when we eventually returned , we found everything had been destroyed — houses , crops , animals . |
| 30 | And how come there had been a scumnik kid present too in the crowd of possible recruits ? |