Example sentences of "and [noun prp] had be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone questioned by the police ( and Julia and Ian had been questioned twice ) knew the registration of Gray 's car . |
| 2 | The friendship between Branson and Oldfield had been based initially on dependence and protectiveness — mutual need , and mutual gratitude . |
| 3 | Leeds and Cleckheaton had been cordoned off by troops to stop the crowds from getting in . |
| 4 | Victoria was banned from the riverside and Gertie had been instructed never to take the baby anywhere near the water . |
| 5 | The children were in school and already Sam and Ruth had been promoted twice , and Joe once . |
| 6 | And thus , when her father 's ghastly illness had first been diagnosed , and had then continued on its remorseless path , she 'd only discovered — when it was far too late — that she and Ross had been growing steadily and disastrously apart . |
| 7 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 8 | Long before Neil Kinnock let it be known that he had let his membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament lapse , the Labour Party and CND had been growing apart . |
| 9 | The Duke turned abruptly back , intending to inform his lordship that he did not permit duelling among his officers , but Rossendale and Jane had been swallowed up in the crowd . |
| 10 | Patrick and Jane had been put up in a room in the Shelbourne Hotel which faced St Stephen 's Green . |
| 11 | It was a week after the hurricane , and Stephen had been working non-stop , salvaging coral-stone and tiles from the debris . |
| 12 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 13 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 14 | He was not hurrying , but his attitude suggested he thought Anna and Seb had been talking together for quite long enough . |
| 15 | Rebus and Osvaldo had been blown away from each other some three metres . |
| 16 | John and Brian had been drinking together . |
| 17 | The houses in Blackpool , London and Manchester had been sold long ago . |
| 18 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
| 19 | This party was a much bigger affair than the small gathering back in August , and Belinda had been swept along on a tide of food and drink and conversation . |
| 20 | Everyone knew she and Ryan had been living together , and it was easy to jump to the wrong conclusions . |
| 21 | ‘ And Steve had been playing so good at that point in his life . |
| 22 | Maybe the Fax machine was in one of the outbuildings , but they were the other side of the yard near the barn and Cawthorne had been walking away from them . |
| 23 | But effectively , both he and Negroponte had been shunted aside . |
| 24 | To save space he and Angela had been packed in with their faces jammed against each other 's feet . |
| 25 | On 11th February , 1859 , Tite , at almost the earliest opportunity he had in Parliament after Scott 's appointment , asked Manners why Banks and Barry had been passed over , as Scott 's design was inconvenient and expensive and Scott was ‘ as competent to erect an Italian building , as a Gothic one ’ . |
| 26 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 27 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 28 | While the pub had been emptying of its customers , and Fritz had been covering down behind the counter , Mrs Nora had grabbed a broom and , holding it in both hands like a bat , had waited until the Turk had turned to face her — and then cracked him across the forehead . |
| 29 | The street shelter had been hit and Ruby had been dug out to see a crater where her house had been and fires burning fiercely everywhere she looked . |
| 30 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |