Example sentences of "had [be] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 2 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 3 | It had been a nine days ' wonder , during which no charges had been brought , but Travis had told her to her face that he knew she had taken it . |
| 4 | Coffin wondered if the inhabitants of Drake Towers , with their BMWs and Porsches , knew that the old Francis Drake Street had been a regular thieves ' kitchen . |
| 5 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 6 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 7 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 8 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 9 | Parish clerk Jennie Flintoff said there had been a few accidents at the entrance to the village . |
| 10 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |
| 11 | For , he was sure , no mistake , there had been a few flings in her life . |
| 12 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 13 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 14 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 15 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 16 | The only furniture we had was a few tables and chairs . ’ |