Example sentences of "had be [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Party for National Independence , Istiklal , held its constituent congress on July 3-4 and elected as its chair Etibar Mamedov , who had been its candidate in the presidential elections . |
| 2 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 3 | Another successful project had been their support of the National Woodland Trust Appeal , which had raised over £400 . |
| 4 | The Crown 's servants in the sixteenth century were in many ways less effective as administrative instruments than had been their predecessors in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries . |
| 5 | The suggestion of hiring a car had almost come from these two ; it had been their talk of the small towns , the cedar woods , the mountains , which had fascinated Dan so much . |
| 6 | Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying . |
| 7 | At hockey there was a vacancy for the goalkeeper and that had been my position in the school team . |
| 8 | In his own funny way he would miss Joe who had been his passport into the real world . |
| 9 | It had been his baptism in the struggle for survival of the Islamic Revolution . |
| 10 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 11 | He never looked away from her and she saw that the pain in his eyes had been his vision of the sea tearing at him , his soul screaming no , no to earth , no to this , no to her . |
| 12 | He knows how important to the power of his writings had been his fight with the Jews and the outrageous candour of his sexual descriptions , and in the recent writings this knowledge is conveyed by the proximity of an imagined truce to an imagined impotence . |
| 13 | This disappointment was all the more galling for the fact that the prime minister and eight other cabinet ministers had been his colleagues in the UDC ; and , unmollified by nomination for the Nobel peace prize , Morel became almost as bitter a critic of the Ramsay MacDonald government as of its predecessors . |
| 14 | One of his reasons for leaving the Navy had been his dislike of the social relations between officers and ratings — take three paces backwards and shout at them . |
| 15 | There is little doubt that Harris 's 1,000-Plan saved the Command for the planned strategic bombing of Germany that had been his Directive from the Chiefs-of-Staff Committee who set aside some 3,500 heavy aircraft for this task . |
| 16 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |
| 17 | As a young man , it had been his recognition of the need for contemporary diction and contemporary imagery in poetry that had drawn him to sources as disparate as Baudelaire and John Davidson . |