Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 2 | Wendy was still living in Old Wolverton , and because of her shift work I did not see her very often ; and most of those with whom I had been friendliest were billeted in outlying areas . |
| 3 | The one to whom I had been speaking was shivering audibly . |
| 4 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 5 | A couple of years after coming out , I met a heterosexual woman with whom I had been particularly close before I had blasted our cosy set up out of the water . |
| 6 | Here again I learnt to admire and like these people , with whom I had been so recently at war , and to see clearly both the differences and the similarities between people of different nationalities and the fantastic ability of people to respond to leadership tuned to their needs . |
| 7 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 8 | I even told them I had been recommended for a commission . |
| 9 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |
| 10 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 11 | It was not , alas , I who had been inadvertently left alone for two minutes in an antechamber where by chance lay the plan of the Althaus plumbing system — to prove , as so much that is missing does , the crucial piece of evidence when , later , people were trying to fit together the events that fired the conflagration of the civilised world . |
| 12 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 13 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 14 | And while we were talking about Crippen , it would probably be unwise to choose as a role model someone who had been topped for the offence . |
| 15 | The name given to a demonic or maniacal GHOST of someone who had been evil during his lifetime . |
| 16 | If he could find someone who had been through the mill as he had and then collaborate with them , great things were possible . |
| 17 | ‘ I talked about it with friends and they always knew someone who had been through it who were twice the men they were before , ’ said Mr Morton , 59 . |
| 18 | As they culled Who 's Who there was a debate on the executive about the ‘ Old Lord approach ’ — finding someone who had been a financial force in the past , and would prove the paper was commercially sober . |
| 19 | In fact the use of the phrase " verbal directive " is a further indication that this signal was not drafted by someone who had been intimately involved In the events of the previous ten days , as Brig Low had been . |
| 20 | Cardiff was still one of the bastards who had put him away , not someone who had been duped by a fellow officer with false evidence , certainly not someone he had come to respect . |
| 21 | He wore a formal suit and had the pressured air of someone who had been side-tracked from an important engagement . |
| 22 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 23 | When he left , the other actors offered him clumsy commiseration , as to someone who had been bereaved . |
| 24 | Here was someone who had been through hell , but still could forgive the bombers , while pleading with them to realise the tragedy they were causing . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 26 | Someone who had been determined enough to escape from Colditz was unlikely to be put off by losing a couple of potential candidates , so the next in line was pushed forward . |
| 27 | John Tutchin , himself a Nonconformist and someone who had been involved in Monmouth 's rebellion , frequently attacked the High Church lower clergy in his Whig periodical , The Observator , but was prepared to defend the Church hierarchy , saying that we had " the best set of Bishops that ever England yet knew " . |
| 28 | His sister , Linda Lee , who called at the house , said her children were talking about someone who had been killed on the railway line . |
| 29 | It also amends the Official Secrets Act to allow someone who had been prosecuted to argue that releasing information was in the public interest . |
| 30 | Everyone knew someone who had been involved . |