Example sentences of "but [pron] had be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 2 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 3 | ‘ But there had been disappointed expectations , on both sides , when the estate of the late philanthropist had finally , well almost finally , been settled , with the lawyers still growing fat on the pickings . |
| 4 | The Grand Junction , he told them , had entered into minimum toll agreements with the Leicestershire Navigation , the Loughborough Navigation and the Erewash Canal , but there had been insufficient traffic to meet the full amount . |
| 5 | The authority was not accepting Mr Guest 's allegation of a blatant and malicious fabrication by the officers but there had been insufficient material to obtain the warrant . |
| 6 | There was an emphasis on the generation of female employment as well as on the general need for diversification but there had been little development by the outbreak of war . |
| 7 | But there had been little doubt he would go from the moment Micheal Hurley had called during the Thanksgiving holiday to say he had at last been funded for a major operation in the Middle East and would Coleman be interested in going back to Cyprus as a DEA contractor ? |
| 8 | The party managers continued to bewail the organizational weakness of Coalition Liberalism , but there had been little opportunity for organizational collaboration ; one of the few joint ventures , a magazine called Popular View , was abandoned in 1921 because of the impossibility of producing a lively magazine out of continuous compromise . |
| 9 | Before this , it was realized that quality had an impact on the bottom line , but there had been little analysis of its effects . |
| 10 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 11 | But there had been unsuccessful sides in the past that had been packed with outstanding individuals who had not coalesced , or been moulded , into a good team . |
| 12 | She still had the pearls , but there had been many tears since she first wore them . |
| 13 | But there had been eighteen jobs on offer . |
| 14 | But there had been strange times since then , and they 'd put Gentle in an apter mood for this study . |
| 15 | All 18 had initialled the treaty on March 13 , but there had been some doubt before the final signature that Baskhkortostan would sign . |
| 16 | He 'd seen salamanders before , of course , but they had been small specimens . |
| 17 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 18 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |