Example sentences of "they had [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At which poor Jack Rogers — a former bricklayer and union leader , and the member of the executive taking the can back as he replied to the debate — innocently protested they had n't been drunk , they had n't even had a cup of tea . |
| 2 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 3 | They had n't been to see him today . |
| 4 | They had n't been to visit Baby in hospital either . |
| 5 | Apart from that one time when Gloria went off instead to cheer the King , Dot could n't remember a day when they had n't been to visit whatever hospital he was in . |
| 6 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 7 | But then again , not really , if they had n't been THAT close all along anyway . |
| 8 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 9 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 10 | They had n't been seen . |
| 11 | They had n't been hunting it . |
| 12 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 13 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 14 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 15 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 16 | They had n't been encouraged and treated well and led to believe that they had brains and insights like she had . |
| 17 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 18 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 19 | They had n't been able to light a fire . |
| 20 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 21 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 22 | I saw the hoses last week , they had n't been drained , they 're frozen solid in their coils . ’ |
| 23 | The cars parked on the end of the runway did n't help either , but Spencer says now that he would n't have made the runway even it they had n't been there . |
| 24 | You might have company , " Patrick panted. he knew that they had n't been followed , but he also knew that as soon as his mother discovered that he — that both of them — had gone , the first place she would head for would be Joe Hyde 's flat . |
| 25 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 26 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 27 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 28 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 29 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 30 | Maybe they had n't been secured anyway . |