Example sentences of "be [that] [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had . |
| 2 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 3 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 4 | It was no fault of Harry 's that he had been mistakenly put in the care of such people , although there was nothing to be said against the Pritchetts — a decent , hard-working family — other than their class . |
| 5 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 6 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |
| 7 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 8 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |
| 9 | The appropriate procedures for investigation were followed and the opinion of the consultant paediatrician who examined her was that she had been chronically abused sexually . |
| 10 | Her defence was that she had been influenced to sign by duress on the part of her husband . |
| 11 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 12 | He used a lot of abstruse terms like " cricoid " but what it amounted to was that she had been strangled . |
| 13 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 14 | All that mattered was that she had been the fool . |
| 15 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 16 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 17 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 18 | A candid confession to youthful pot-smoking , it is generally agreed , is no longer a disqualification for office , but the sore part of the latest wound — pretty mild by Clinton standards — was that he had been evasive when asked repeatedly about it for at least seven years and that even last week 's admission was shifty . |
| 19 | The fact was that he had been seduced . |
| 20 | His excuse was that he had been praying . |
| 21 | I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer . |
| 22 | A bonus was that he had been so fascinated by his earlier experience that his confidence in hypnotherapy as a whole had grown , and he was far more willing to undergo treatment than he might otherwise have been . |
| 23 | All he knew was that he had been inadequately protected , and that an attempt on his life had been thwarted by the merest accident . |
| 24 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 25 | The only reason for Mr. Bell being before the justice was that he had been arrested without warrant under section 7(3) of the Act of 1976 and was being brought before her under section 7(4) . |
| 26 | And all he would say was that he had been delayed . |
| 27 | The tentative diagnosis was that he had been too close to Daine 's fantasies and been subsumed into the structure of the Dream . |
| 28 | Nastier still , from Foley 's point of view , was that he had been told to go and live at Mytchett Place as well . |
| 29 | And the irony was that he had been shocked when she had handed him back his ring . |
| 30 | But the important thing was , the impression that everyone er had , who read the paper , was that I had been interviewed by the press . |