Example sentences of "had [be] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was because I could n't stop myself , because I was driven by the need to know if what I 'd felt in Sintra had been real and still existed . |
| 2 | They lay together in the same blue-white room , though this time their lovemaking had been gentler and more familiar , as warmth and exploration of each other 's bodies and hearts had succeeded the glorious frenzy of their first coupling . |
| 3 | Previous theatre work had been tiring but now cine-variety was exhausting . |
| 4 | That should please the farmers — and Iris ; for a couple of weeks or more it had been dry and unusually mild and the land was thirsty . |
| 5 | Edith had been pregnant and alone , the salesman abandoning her when she had told him her condition . |
| 6 | The route from Bordeaux to Bergerac had been straight and fast , and presented her with few problems . |
| 7 | The struggle against such controls was long and hard , and it was not , for example , until the mid twentieth century in England , where the struggle had been early and relatively successful , that the last general form of this kind was abolished , in the theatre . |
| 8 | The truckle-bed had been narrow and hard , and she was profoundly unwilling to surrender herself to sleep . |
| 9 | Police Superintendent John Ashton said Mr Telford , 29 , who is married with three children , had been rational and very calm . |
| 10 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 11 | Until the end of the seventeenth century her diplomatic contacts with the States of Western Europe had been intermittent and usually unimportant ( see p. 256 ) . |
| 12 | His life had been well-ordered and reasonably happy , he thought , by minding his own business . |
| 13 | At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules . |
| 14 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 15 | Anne had been indignant but secretly glad that he would not go away until she understood how he really felt about her . |
| 16 | As we have seen Kenneth Macpherson had felt that the earlier films had been awful but nevertheless he suspected that ‘ the people got in some dim way the fact that here was something growing under their eyes ’ , that the movies had ‘ a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 17 | If only the clothes had been plainer and more suitable for the vicar 's wife of such a poor parish , ’ Sophia lamented , holding up the lame cocktail dress whose belt Faustina had now taken out into the hall . |
| 18 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 19 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 20 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 21 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 22 | The European Court has stated that the concept of abuse is to be assessed by determining whether an undertaking in a dominant position ‘ has made use of the opportunities arising out of its dominant position in such a way as to reap trading benefits which it would not have reaped if there had been normal and sufficiently effective competition ’ . |
| 23 | He had drunk a lot of wine during supper " to celebrate Chuck 's mighty fine bull , " and she had noticed that his manner had been louder and more expansive as a result . |
| 24 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 25 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |
| 26 | Sherry , as she was called , had proved as eager for the mating as Warrior and the coupling had been quick and undoubtedly successful . |
| 27 | I thanked him , he saluted , and the two of them walked on My guard said that I was crazy ; I could have run into terrible trouble , but I had been lucky and now I had only to choose a beautiful new bicycle . |
| 28 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 29 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 30 | His fall had been fast and far , but it had been almost worthwhile , almost , and one day , one distant day , there was the dream of a flight beyond the borders of the Motherland . |