Example sentences of "had be [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 2 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 3 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 4 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 5 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 6 | Out of Surbiton , with an accent that veered between Sydney — which was where many people located him — and outer London , his initial work on the magazine had been selling it on the streets . |