Example sentences of "had [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The daughter of a warehouseman , she was 26 years old in 1910 , so had presumably been more than ten years in the trade . |
| 2 | That had all been more than two years before . |
| 3 | They had all been there when Moran read out the telegram . |
| 4 | The signs had all been there if only she 'd had the gumption to read them . |
| 5 | This had obviously been there since manufacture and had caused the blockages I had blamed on sand . |
| 6 | People spoke of the great times when he fought sea-battles all over the Sudreyar and further south , in England and Ireland and Wales , but he , Paul , had not been there and did n't remember them . |
| 7 | The word had not been there when she left that morning . |
| 8 | The bungalow showed no sign of life , and there had not been any when they had driven past on the road . |
| 9 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 10 | La Marche was a huge fief held of the Duke of Aquitaine , but the Counts had always been more or less independent . |
| 11 | He had always been there and when she was little she had worshipped him with all the adulation of any little girl for a big , brave , older brother . |
| 12 | ‘ You must go , ’ he said , as if nobody had ever been there but him . |
| 13 | I saw a river-bed , biting deep into the land , but nothing to suggest that a lake had ever been there or that man had ever trod there . |
| 14 | No one had ever been more than twice round the Bay in those conditions and survived . ’ |
| 15 | It was a single , narrow affair with a wafer-thin mattress that sagged in the middle and was covered by a brown woollen blanket that had probably been there since the hotel was built . |
| 16 | Jezrael almost fell over a gee-node that had n't been here when her memories had taped the place . |
| 17 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 18 | The First Lady had n't been there or Mrs Goreng would have been reintroduced to her . |
| 19 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |
| 20 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 21 | From The Childhood , and even more from some conversations I recorded with the poet 's second cousin ( T. Trehame Thomas ) in 1966–7 , there are hints that Mrs Thomas 's family proudly preserved the memory of Alderman Townsend and his descendants : the Tedmans at a vicarage in Much Birch , near Hereford ; another great-uncle at Limpley Stoke near Bath with an interest in the development of Edward 's French grammar ; and many more who had either been abroad and returned to moderate affluence in the Border counties ( according to Mr T. T. Thomas 's recollections ) or had settled abroad in Africa or in the USA , like Edward 's aunt Margaret . |
| 22 | After Independence , Partition and the departure of most British and Muslim cadres from the ICS , Nehru , the new Prime Minister , who had previously been less than sympathetic to the ICS , came increasingly to depend upon men such as Pillai , who — embodying the Service 's traditions of discretion and loyalty — had no difficulty in serving a new master . |
| 23 | Claire sat down , as they had done so many times together , and the years fell away as if they had never been apart and she had never married . |
| 24 | Many an anti-dog man joins the ranks of dog lovers because he is too weak to resist the demands of beloved children , but in Wexford 's household the demands had never been more than half-hearted , so he had passed through this snare and come out unscathed . |
| 25 | The entry specified that he had Spanish as a foreign language , which made me smile , for his Spanish had never been more than rudimentary , though of course it might have improved since he was in Salamanca . |
| 26 | With a child 's resilience she had quickly adjusted to the loss of her mother , who had never been more than a glamorous appendage on the periphery of her world , and Sally had stepped in to fill the breach more than adequately . |
| 27 | Frightened by the threat of invasion ( Fears in Solitude ) , he was beginning that slide or jump to the Right which angered and puzzled his liberal associates , though it is fair to say that his revolutionary sympathies , unlike Wordsworth 's , had never been more than superficial . |
| 28 | But he could n't invent a love that had never been there and he felt that Lou would be better off without him . |