Example sentences of "that [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appealed for leniency on the grounds that nothing had been touched . |
| 2 | He replied that nothing had been put forward concerning a trust . |
| 3 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 4 | It became clear that nothing had been gained by removing the prince , especially as another ruler had now to be found . |
| 5 | At the beginning of October , Kathy , who had again been invited for supper , arrived at Clare 's apartment to find that nothing had been cooked . |
| 6 | He wanted to make certain for himself that nothing had been overlooked . |
| 7 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 8 | There had been no word from Steve or Maria Lisa and though there was no time element concerned with this contract she was still a little worried that nothing had been accomplished with the airlines and tourist board in Palma . |
| 9 | Yet I discovered that nothing had been disturbed . ’ |
| 10 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 11 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 12 | The impression that everyone had been industrious until their arrival , and would be industrious when they had gone , grew stronger . |
| 13 | However , with the stories of massive repair costs being bandied around and a particularly uninspiring incumbent devoting most of his energies to the adjacent parish , it was understandable that no-one had been brave enough to voice their concern . |
| 14 | The Poles took the matter seriously , but the League of Nations , saying that no-one had been hurt and perhaps the revolver had not been loaded , took no action . |
| 15 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 16 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 17 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 18 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 19 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 20 | He would assume that I had been detained scrubbing the floors of the kitchens at Grindlewood Park . |
| 21 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 22 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 23 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 24 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 25 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 26 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 27 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 28 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 29 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 30 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |