Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 2 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 3 | During the farmer 's eulogy I had been distractedly scratching the cow 's tail and had soiled my hand in the process . |
| 4 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 5 | Conserving what little money I had was therefore my number-one priority . |
| 6 | The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds … |
| 7 | I thinks the manufacturing experience I had was very important , because it enabled me to see things from the manufacturer 's point of view , which many retailers have n't done . |
| 8 | But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that . |
| 9 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 10 | I demurred , pointing out to Haines that as the chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association I had been very careful to avoid interfering with press stories in any way . |
| 11 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 12 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 13 | The card I had was a 2,400bps ( bits per second ) data modem , and a 9,600bps Class 2 fax modem . |
| 14 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
| 15 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 16 | The last break I had was five months ago . |
| 17 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 18 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 19 | At college I had been thoroughly disgusted with the male egos that dominated the left-wing student politics . |
| 20 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 21 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 22 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 23 | The previous term I had been placed third — now my position was sixth . |
| 24 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 25 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 26 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
| 27 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 28 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 29 | Durance said to Rain : ‘ I ca n't believe Joseph does n't understand that selling under her name a painting recognizable as a Durance is equivalent to telling a journalist she had been painting my pictures . |
| 30 | At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray . |