Example sentences of "had be [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly everyone , I would have guessed , had been either in the dining room or the dome car all morning . |
| 2 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 3 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 4 | ( In the 1989 election the FL , with 7.56 per cent of the vote , had been just below the minimum 8 per cent necessary to win representation ) . |
| 5 | Worse , the decision briefly poisoned relations between Niki and James , which until then had been well within the bounds of friendly competition . |
| 6 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 7 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 8 | Real income per head of the UK population was lower in the mid-1980s than in eleven other advanced capitalist countries , while even in 1953 only three ( the US , Canada and Sweden ) had been ahead of the UK . |
| 9 | She had been completely against the war , right from the start . |
| 10 | In the first place , the number of very big cities was growing rapidly , as it had been since about the middle of the century . |
| 11 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 12 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 13 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 14 | ( In fact the ambassador William Sullivan , had been nowhere near the airport ) . |
| 15 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 16 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 17 | Jean , surely , had been here at the time of the murder . |
| 18 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 19 | When Lorton had been here in the summer , the car park was nearly full . |
| 20 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 21 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 22 | While I had been away at the Wye , the silver-grey had either moved her family to a new nest of had fallen foul of a fisherman 's trap . |
| 23 | While the unit had been away in the field , the usual correspondence was being exchanged between the various staffs involved , almost certainly without Stirling 's knowledge . |
| 24 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |
| 25 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 26 | Sometimes , he assumed the Elder had been around since the Creation . |
| 27 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 28 | Peter had been outside in the wasteland . |
| 29 | On the way in the train earlier she had pictured her meeting with Penry over and over again , but none of her imaginings had been remotely like the reality . |
| 30 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |