Example sentences of "[coord] [det] had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the young people had suffered several foster placement breakdowns , and some had been in trouble with the law . |
| 2 | But that had been for women with no man to protect them , so they had to do whatever they could and were respected for it . |
| 3 | But that had been in the immediacy of action and as much to save himself as to save Gomez . |
| 4 | So often since then she had lain awake in the darkness aching for him … but that had been before the discovery of Sybil 's body and the awful , emotional turmoil that had followed . |
| 5 | Danny had mercifully been persuaded to leave his ghetto-blaster behind , but this had been against his better judgement , and Rachel soon realised his silence was in fact a form of sulking . |