Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had be [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1	Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable .
2	During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide .
3	The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the .
4	Strange , how easy it had been to accept the harshness of the training depot and the lessons she had learned .
5	Whereas yesterday he had been given a glimpse of Vic 's charm , now he felt disturbed by this peculiar character .
6	Propagandists could always argue that the fact that so many misfortunes had befallen England since the Revolution confirmed how wrong it had been to dethrone the rightful sovereign .
7	Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree .
8	Only an hour ago she had been finishing the evening milking , peaceful in the milking house with Florence .
9	When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp .
10	Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said .
11	The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled .
12	Yet he had been offered a foreman 's job and refused it .
13	Previously he had been discussing the case of charging a trust on a debtor .
14	For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting , shaved and in full uniform , on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn .

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