Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 2 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
| 3 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 4 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 5 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 6 | All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband . |
| 7 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 8 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 10 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 11 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 12 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 13 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 14 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 15 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 16 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 17 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 18 | She had always believed there would be someone special — for a while she had been under the illusion that that someone was Marcus . |
| 19 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |
| 20 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 21 | Earlier that day we had been in the yard of a house near the front line , among groves of frost-damaged mandarins , where a unit of some 50 Georgians was preparing to ‘ clean ’ a group of Abkhazians ( or Russians , as the Georgians claimed ) from their side of the river . |
| 22 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 23 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 24 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 25 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 26 | By mid-morning he had been through the day 's edition of the Herald Tribune . |
| 27 | Abruptly , and with a habit she had been on the way to forgetting he had , Ven Gajdusek cut her off again . |
| 28 | She got a very nice reference from the surgeon she had been with and so is most grateful to me for organising it . |
| 29 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 30 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |