Example sentences of "[adv] and [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 2 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 3 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 4 | ‘ She had n't been harmed , but she said Edouard was attacked while she was there and it had been done as a warning to her . |
| 5 | It was n't really their Auntie 's pub , but she worked there and it had been convenient to make all the arrangements on a friendly family footing . |
| 6 | I remembered being in the weight-training room with two club-mates , Trevor Wade and Clifford Mamba , a few weeks earlier and we had been discussing sprinting . |