Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had [adv] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had never been that . |
| 2 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 3 | As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales . |
| 4 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |
| 5 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 6 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 7 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 8 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 9 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 10 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 11 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Correct ’ treatment of prisoners had always been acknowledged , but there had never been any mention of civilian suits or bottles of whisky . |
| 13 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
| 14 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |