Example sentences of "had be [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 2 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 3 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 4 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 5 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 6 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 7 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 8 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 9 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 10 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 11 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 12 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |
| 13 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 14 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 15 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 16 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 17 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 18 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 19 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 20 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 21 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 22 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |
| 23 | It would be bad psychology to tell Lou that she had been shown them by the police . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 26 | As Burnett had been told nothing about the MI6 operation , he simply rejected Kotov 's complaint as a typical piece of Russian propaganda . |
| 27 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 30 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |