Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 2 | Naturally I had been invited . |
| 3 | If only I had been less impatient and tried to go last . |
| 4 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
| 5 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 6 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 7 | Perhaps I had been too forward , I thought , taken too much for granted . |
| 8 | Or so I had been told . |
| 9 | So I had been a visitor , and an occasional attender at the X-ray Department , but all that was spread over many years . |
| 10 | So I had been right about that . |
| 11 | Peach pine , and when we took the porch down which had been up nearly a hundred years |
| 12 | None at all were recorded in Worcestershire or Cornwall , although there had been forty or more in Bodmin alone which had been the most generous contributors to the rebuilding of the parish church . |
| 13 | If only she had been less direct in her approach , he might have managed something . |
| 14 | If only she had been a bit more accommodating , a bit more enthusiastic . |
| 15 | If only she had been able to evade her pursuer sooner . |
| 16 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 17 | How long she had been there , we could not be sure , for if she sat with head and tail aligned along the wall , she was invisible from below , and only when she turned sideways did she come into view . |
| 18 | She forgot who she was , how long she had been here . |
| 19 | He wondered how she had come there , and how long she had been there , and what her voice would be like , and a thousand other ridiculous things , whilst she breathed in and out , ruffling the gold threads of hair . |
| 20 | Her head was clearing and she wondered how long she had been unconscious . |
| 21 | However long she had been there , the whole stretch was a dingy aching trail of work and beatings . |
| 22 | She was not sure how long she had been there , or how long she might have remained , had she not been disturbed . |
| 23 | She had no idea how long she had been there when a movement in the undergrowth made her look up . |
| 24 | Huy wondered how long she had been in the capital , and how she had got there . |
| 25 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 26 | Ruth was n't even sure how long she had been back in Palma . |
| 27 | Perhaps she had been foolish to remain here , eating a poached egg and spinach off a tray . |
| 28 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 29 | Perhaps she had been too old for parenthood , and then it was very sad for a girl to lose her father in her teens . |
| 30 | I had always seen myself as potentially a sort of protector of her ; and for the first time , that evening at Bourani , I saw that perhaps she had been , or could have been , a protector of me . |