Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 2 | Central to these were the sterling balances which were liabilities which had accrued during the war largely to poorer countries within the Commonwealth . |
| 3 | But for the moment we were friends who had to prepare Wavebreaker for a possible Atlantic crossing . |
| 4 | But there were others who had traded with the Carolingian West ( coins of Louis the Pious and other Frankish objects have been found at Birka ) , who had come to know Christianity from their trading connections , and who formed the bedrock of Anskar 's support . |
| 5 | He suffered defeat and banishment , but there were others who had to suffer it with him . |
| 6 | It was clear to Alexei that if the Merkuts did not wish to see Jehana given in marriage to Artai , there were reasons which had nothing to do with the suitability of the match . |
| 7 | There were disadvantages he had to get used to . |
| 8 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |
| 9 | He realised that there were things he had done ; but now he did nothing . |
| 10 | Besides , there were things she had to do . |
| 11 | There were things she had not told them . |
| 12 | She wanted Roman 's arms around her , she wanted to feel him againt her without the barrier of clothes , but there were things she had to say before she could allow that to happen . |
| 13 | Ferenc Puskas was Major Puskas and during the 1956 uprising there were reports he had been killed . |
| 14 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 15 | At the back of the stalls there were radiators which had plush curtains and we would shove these cakes and sandwiches under the radiators , and the next time somebody ordered a ‘ cinema tea ’ we would go to the kitchen and order a pot . |
| 16 | Of course , there were exams which had to be passed to let me into College but these were accomplished by hard , but guided work . |
| 17 | There were tribunals which had jurisdiction if a certain state of facts existed but not otherwise ; it was not then for the inferior tribunal to determine conclusively upon the existence of such facts . |
| 18 | Formerly there were glow-plugs which had to be warmed before the engine would fire . |
| 19 | ‘ After the Lockerbie disaster there were policemen who had to leave work . |
| 20 | She straightened sharply , and grinned at me , but her face was pale and there were shadows I had n't noticed a moment before . |
| 21 | But , wrote Michael Ramsey in retrospect — it is his own but — ‘ he had wit and generosity and there were pupils who had deep affection for him . |
| 22 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 23 | I mean there 's people I had n't even seen for years that were staying there in Aberdeen came along and offered help . |
| 24 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 25 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 26 | She was late arriving at the restaurant where she had arranged to meet her friends , but they were women she had known since university days and were busy catching up on everyone else 's news . |
| 27 | and er as often as not they were ladies who had been separated or divorced and er they had all , a lot of sort of marital problems and it became almost a , a we welfare of job |
| 28 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |
| 29 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 30 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |