Example sentences of "had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the only clothes I 've ever had are my cloaks . |
| 2 | The good they have done and the influence they have had are known to God and cherished in the hearts of those who remember gratefully their words and their work . |
| 3 | ‘ The only real wives I have ever had are my sailing ships ’ , he is reputed to have once said . |
| 4 | The only luxuries she has had are a holiday in America , a new car and a few home improvements . |
| 5 | Where such ideas ultimately came from and what practical consequences they have had are questions which , on the whole , I have preferred to avoid . |
| 6 | Those two that we 've had are fl are flowers . |
| 7 | Some of the dreams I 've had are just really odd , sorry but dreaming about a white hearse is just |
| 8 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |
| 9 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 10 | He had wanted children for years : not having them had been the one drawback to marrying late . |
| 11 | Only Wise was cautioned — Phelan 's earlier had been , curiously , for delaying a throw-in — and the referee missed an opportunity to establish his authority . |
| 12 | But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan 's had been to atomic attack , and there appeared to be no sure defence against it . |
| 13 | His manure was not sold ( as Red Rum 's had been ) , nor had his exploits been celebrated in song ( as was the case with Arkle , Red Rum and Dawn Run ) , but his fans were not sold short : there were books ( three ) , video tapes ( two ) , countless portraits , a white rocking horse called ‘ Dessie ’ , sculptures and figurines ( some of which actually bore a resemblance to the horse ) , an official fan club , and even a recorded phone message on which Desert Orchid 's part-owner Richard Burridge would update worshippers on the well-being of their idol . |
| 14 | The big man 's face was as bitter , as resentful , as Hector 's had been . |
| 15 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 16 | The bloodless Norman conquest initiated by David I in Scotland was almost as effective as William the Conqueror 's had been in England 60 years earlier . |
| 17 | Johnson 's had been one of the greatest track and field performances of all time . |
| 18 | Her guess as to what it fundamentally was had been correct . |
| 19 | She then told me of a child she had had who had been still-born . |
| 20 | Here again , hopefully protected with a ‘ Black Owned ’ sign , was a McDonald 's that had been spared . |
| 21 | If I had a room of my own , I thought , I would knit and knit to make it as pretty as this or as Miss Louise 's had been . |
| 22 | The pub at which they had finally arrived and had their pints had been serving up bar meals . |
| 23 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 24 | The drawing had been published in 1935 in connection with the painting , yet both consignor and Sotheby 's had been ignorant of this . |
| 25 | As we have seen , old St Paul 's had been in a very poor state of repair even before 1640 , and had suffered further damage as a result of the events of the 1640s before being fatally weakened by the Great Fire . |
| 26 | Dixon had strongly recommended Thackeray , and had concluded his letter by expressing the hope that his Lordship had not ( as he had himself had been in danger of doing ) suffered in the recent inclement season by the want of fuel . |
| 27 | When he asked a police colonel who came to the scene why the elderly couple 's flat had been blown up , the officer replied : ‘ You should have given us your correct address , Comrade Ardzinov . ’ |
| 28 | Even Lloyd George , whose origins were as lowly as Law 's had been , could not stoop to so humble a style , and only Stanley Baldwin ( who drew much of his inspiration from Law ) was able to do so successfully . |
| 29 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 30 | She had to breathe hard between each word , and her face was as white as Branwell 's had been . |