Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 2 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 3 | Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her . |
| 4 | The mere question had been enough to provoke suspicion . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
| 6 | It really was er of the sort , you know , if Cleopatra 's nose had been half an inch longer , history would have all been different , you know , that , that kind of trivia . |
| 7 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 8 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 9 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
| 10 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 11 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 12 | Her teeth crunched down on her lower lip as the whirlpool of her desire sped her back to Seville when this sort of contact had been enough to … |
| 13 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 14 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 15 | His own feeling had been that Dizzy Liston looked like some amiable , well-heeled scarecrow . |
| 16 | The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either . |
| 17 | In the 1930s Auden & Co. had been another ; with Auden himself , as early as his undergraduate days at Oxford in the late 1920s , confidently apportioning literary roles to Isherwood , Spender and himself . |
| 18 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |
| 19 | ( It is perhaps worth noting that if the whole-tone scale had been that which begins on D♭ the degree of conflict would have been less . ) |
| 20 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
| 21 | The whole performance had been little more than a formality , to give an appearance of government by consensus . |
| 22 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 23 | Admittedly lust was involved , but the major motivation had been that unexplainable , instinctive emotion called love . |
| 24 | He could have sworn that the voice had been that of Christine Ashdown . ) |
| 25 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 26 | He claimed that her private world had been little more than an experiment in frenzy , and that a breakdown had been inevitable . |
| 27 | It was just that the World Cup had been such a marvellous occasion , a tremendous experience . |
| 28 | Barbara , whose previous experiences in that line had been few but enjoyable , remembered with guilty nostalgia the handful of nights she had spent with the managing director at the Royal Albion in Brighton . |
| 29 | Clare was a gullible girl , and a show of religious fervour had been all that was needed to make her quite infatuated with Underwood . |
| 30 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |