Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 2 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 3 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 4 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 5 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 6 | He would assume that I had been detained scrubbing the floors of the kitchens at Grindlewood Park . |
| 7 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 8 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 9 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 10 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 11 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 12 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 13 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 14 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 15 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 16 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 17 | I felt that I had been very clumsy . |
| 18 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 19 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |
| 20 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 21 | Beth Stubbs was a Quaker , a member of that old Mafia that I had been so wary of . |
| 22 | I could see she was an unfit woman , and although I was resolved not to tell anyone now of my qualifications , except that I had been an ARP worker , I did try to be as helpful to her as I could . |
| 23 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 24 | It was the first time that I had been picked to run in an individual event against the USA , and I was looking forward to it . |
| 25 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 26 | I thought that I had been set up . |
| 27 | It was quite phenomenal and I felt that I had been privileged to run in such a race . |
| 28 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 29 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 30 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |