Example sentences of "had be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamilton played well , Palace won 2–1 and his claim for a first team place had been properly and completely justified . |
| 2 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |
| 3 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 4 | A few seconds later Susan came bursting in as she had been upstairs when she 'd heard Maggie 's voice . |
| 5 | She reminded me of a wasp as she flitted round him , a wasp suddenly aware , in the way wasps have , that there is rotting matter in the vicinity , for she had been upstairs when he arrived by way of the garden and could n't have seen him . |
| 6 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 7 | He had never examined a man before : whenever they had been near before he had been too busy looking for an escape route . |
| 8 | For much of this unhappy early chapter in Diana 's royal life , she had excluded those who had been near and dear to her , although Prince Charles still saw his former friends , particularly the Parker-Bowles and the Palmer-Tomkinsons . |
| 9 | The conventional view of his time was that all species were immutable and that each had been individually and separately created by God . |
| 10 | In that moment , she almost broke down and told him she loved him desperately , for she could see , finally , that all her pretences in Thailand of his capacity for emotion had been just that : pretences . |
| 11 | It had been just as he was leaving on a Sunday evening . |
| 12 | Gielgud , too , through the agency of his mother , produced reviews to prove that the golden oldies of the classic past with whom Burton was being compared to his disadvantage had been just as slammed in their time . |
| 13 | It went clean through the Redruth posts and the Soviet Union 's first tour of England had been well and truly launched . |
| 14 | Their task of containing their adversaries , without committing themselves to outright attack , had been well and truly done . ’ |
| 15 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 16 | The very private little operation had been well and truly let out of the bag . |
| 17 | A short wooden sword was clutched in one grimy hand and the boy 's shirt had been well and truly ripped . |
| 18 | It had been well and truly earthed . |
| 19 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 20 | The enemy to pride and honour through strength had been clearly and incontrovertibly identified ; it was communism , meaning socialism , which ran from Medicaid through welfare cheques to tax rises . |
| 21 | He had been briefly but sincerely mourned . |
| 22 | There had been other collapses , there were little ones all the time , and big ones too like the ‘ Tim and Teddy ’ shops ' rapid demise ( which had been simply because of their slovenly accounting ) , but Rose had a special place . |
| 23 | The work was less skilled than it had been formerly since no women made up a whole garment , but rather worked on one fragment of the process , for instance sewing up side-seams all day , every day . |
| 24 | The astrologer had been right to warn her off , had been right that his heart was tied up elsewhere . |
| 25 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 26 | He found , for example , that cover values for vegetation , litter and bare ground were distinct between sites that had been moderately and severely affected with a less distinct gradation occurring between slightly and moderately disturbed sites , and that noticeable exposure of mineral soil occurred only after the vegetation cover was reduced by c. 40 per cent . |
| 27 | At one level , of course , it had worked , because throughout her pregnancy Rachel had been carefully and systematically nice to her . |
| 28 | One of the most important points was that , after a long process when every possible avenue had been carefully and scrupulously explored , when Mr. Mendes was returned to Sri Lanka he suffered no persecution whatsoever . |
| 29 | The man had been here and had gone . |
| 30 | This section is for permanent residents ; I brought you here first because if it had got out that you had been here and had n't seen this lot my life would n't have been worth living . |