Example sentences of "had be [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 2 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 3 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 4 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 5 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 6 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 7 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 8 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 9 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 10 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 11 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 12 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 13 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 14 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 15 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 16 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 17 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 18 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 19 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 20 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 21 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 22 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 24 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 25 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |
| 26 | The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918 . |
| 27 | The Lords were more diehard , as they had been ever since 1911 , but unless their powers were restored they would denounce the government in vain . |
| 28 | The 80s had been all about obsessional lifestyles , body consciousness , diet fads , work-out videos , designer leotards , Reeboks and Aqua Libra . |
| 29 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 30 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |