Example sentences of "two [noun pl] had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then revealed that the two brothers had been on the brink of a merger with a hotel group , a highly respectable one with over fifty good solid hotels in the provinces . |
| 2 | That evening the two defendants had been in the Peace Gardens with Mrs McMullen , her mother , Annie Williams , and brother , Terence Morton . |
| 3 | The jury was previously told by John Griffith-Williams QC , prosecuting , that the two defendants had been in the Wrexham Peace Gardens with Mrs McMullen on the evening of her death , where McLean later claimed to have found her body . |
| 4 | Police believe the two men had been in the area for some time possibly in a blue transit van which had ladders on its roof . |
| 5 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 6 | Jack was in his studio , and the two women had been in the drawing room watching a video-recording of Alison 's play about the ballet school . |