Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 2 | Sister Asuncion 's convent was completely destroyed by a bomb attack , although luckily the community had been warned and everyone had gone into hiding . |
| 3 | And when eventually the colobus had been ripped into pieces , and the forest went quiet , he pointed out the way the chimps shared their spoils with their nearest relatives . |
| 4 | This man , whose name was so familiar to her , whose company 's recent comings and goings on the stock-market had been so well chronicled , and of some special interest to her , was a great deal younger than she had expected . |
| 5 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 6 | well the brochures became , were dated each year , the service charge , a date was put on the service charges each year , that 's not to say they were , th they automatically changed , it depends on how long the scheme had been open |
| 7 | er the existing brochure might become out of date depending on how long the scheme had been open |
| 8 | He was unable to tell Mr Gannon 's family how long the infection had been present but he believed the infection had spread through Mr Gannon 's blood rather than through any internal rupture . |
| 9 | In fact , ’ I frowned , ‘ there 's no saying how long the enemy had been there , waiting . |
| 10 | Tabitha wondered how long the woman had been scratching a living on the waterways , complaining to uncaring passengers , never quite summoning up the cash or the strength to take the long haul home . |
| 11 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 12 | The first FMLN announcement stated that one of the advisers had died instantly and the others within minutes from their injuries ; however , a further statement on Jan. 9 noted that two members of the unit which brought down the helicopter had been arrested on charges of murdering wounded prisoners of war , and that they would be dealt with according to " war justice " if found guilty . |
| 13 | Perhaps the bird had been attacked by others , and so had to drop what he was carrying . |
| 14 | Perhaps the luck had been going our way recently . |
| 15 | Perhaps the headmaster had been able to reassure her in ways that were not open to Robert . |
| 16 | I suppose she was in the kitchen , perhaps avoiding me , and perhaps the boy had been instructed to entertain me . |
| 17 | Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station . |
| 18 | Perhaps the divorce had been a ploy to revive her husband 's fading interest ; one that had backfired on her . |
| 19 | Perhaps the marriage had been an attraction of opposites . |
| 20 | Perhaps the swank had been right in that one respect when he jeered at Biff 's diligent efforts in the Scriptory … |
| 21 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 22 | What remained of the gardens was now given over to the university 's botany department , and so the building had been able to retain much of its outward character . |
| 23 | So the church had been finally demolished and the Old Rectory , sheltering behind it and proving more durable , had been sold . |
| 24 | Because they were effecting the repair work themselves it had taken longer to complete than if they had let the Yard do it , but even so the tow had been under way again shortly after noon on the third day . |
| 25 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 26 | However much the Donation had been perfected and refined by the twelfth century to fit into other papal arguments , there still remained the basic problem not so much as to the origin of power as to its descent . |
| 27 | If only the rest had been encouraged to play it big and brassy like this . |
| 28 | When he was murdered during the Wars of the Roses only the choir had been built ; later the ante-chapel was added and together they formed College Chapel . |
| 29 | It was like a small field , only the grass had been cut ; and there to the side stood a house . |
| 30 | Hitherto the provision had been for the Speaker to become interim president , with the obligation to organize elections within a period of 45-60 days . |