Example sentences of "[adv] had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 2 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 3 | After had been at U.C.L. for a few months , the C.R.C . |
| 4 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 5 | He said figures revealed there from 1978–93 there had been at least 57 suicides within the force but that the police authorities were reluctant to admit this . |
| 6 | Another seven people murdered in Northern Ireland , a dreadful end to a dreadful week , and yet on Friday there had been at least a little optimism in the air , John Major and Albert Reynolds getting together in Brussels for what were billed as substantive talks , where does all that go now ? |
| 7 | He too had been at Oxford , studying Science , and he was another of the twelve prize recruits who marched away from the City of Dreaming Spires . |
| 8 | I rang Bunny because he too had been at university with me , though , funnily enough , I did n't really know him until later . |