Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 2 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 3 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 4 | But after I left her , I realized how cruel I had been . |
| 5 | How foolish I had been to believe him , and love him so much ! |
| 6 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 7 | His room was the most interesting I had been in up to then . |
| 8 | The entrance was through a small separate cell to the north-east , and it was this which had been tampered with . |
| 9 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 10 | How sensible she had been not to give way to any of his blandishments . |
| 11 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 12 | Praying , as she sidled along to the changing-room , that no one would ever know how utterly wrong she had been … |
| 13 | The sun was full on her face , and it was clear she had been crying . |
| 14 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 15 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 16 | Overall , when the children on the course were compared to those in the control groups , it was found that none of them had taken up smoking and some who had been using snuff before the start of the programme had now given up . |
| 17 | Of course , there were some who had been bought by ORDEN , even secondary school pupils who were members of the Paramilitary groups . |
| 18 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 19 | Chester , who was soon to accompany Coleridge on the journey into Europe , was yet another who had been drawn to him ‘ as flies are to honey ’ , and now trotted happily beside his two talkative companions , bow-legged and awestruck . |
| 20 | Would a rescuer be denied an action on the ground of ex turpi causa , e.g. if one burglar was injured attempting to assist another who had been placed in danger by the dangerous condition of the house they were breaking into ? |
| 21 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 22 | Her earlier fears had faded and she thought how foolish she had been to let a ridiculous fancy disturb her happiness . |
| 23 | She recovered herself , grateful that he had either not noticed how jumpy she had been or was willing to pretend he had not . |
| 24 | While 39 per cent of those unemployed for up to six months were manual workers , this group made up almost half the unemployed who had been without work for between two and three years . |
| 25 | Previous to this we had been left very much to our own resources . |
| 26 | Yes , but this creature would have known him , this one had been there , he had seen the Creation and the Fall … |
| 27 | This one had been snatched back . |
| 28 | There was a great deal of space on the new site , but the station was less conveniently situated to the city than the old one had been . |
| 29 | In April 2 there had been a clash between the security forces and civilians in the Bassatine suburb of southern Cairo after the security forces had intervened to prevent the distribution of tracts hostile to the regime . |
| 30 | Whereas in 1972 there had been 462 persons employed in the catching sector , this had declined to 217 by 1982 . |