Example sentences of "had [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it true that she had been one among others who had put up bail for Wullie Robertson ? |
| 2 | A good example are the ‘ golf ’ tickets from Craven Arms to Plowden , where upon making enquiries I was informed that there was no golf course , but there had been one in the years before World War One . |
| 3 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 4 | It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion . |
| 5 | There had been nothing at all before . |
| 6 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 7 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 8 | He had been nothing but trouble for the Major . |
| 9 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 10 | had been nothing but a black window space . |
| 11 | What had happened hours ago , a lifetime ago , when he 'd kissed her , had been nothing but an aberration . |
| 12 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 13 | Yet since his father 's death there had been nothing between him and his sister but companionship , affection , peace . |
| 14 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 15 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 16 | Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey . |
| 17 | ’ I could not have accessed it if there had been nothing in it ’ . |
| 18 | There had been nothing like it in the UK before . |
| 19 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |
| 20 | Maria hesitated fleetingly , realising that he must still believe there had been something between her and Florian six years ago . |
| 21 | There had been something about him which had affected her deep down inside . |
| 22 | Small as it was , the incident disturbed her , perhaps because there had been something about the man that had appealed to her . |
| 23 | There had been something about Harold Macmillan being a war criminal . |
| 24 | Even as his broken body had followed its spirit into the night woods , there had been something about him : his fingers flexed just so , as if signalling to her ; a frown on his face , as if he was struggling to turn his eyes to the woman by the fire ; a sparkle in those eyes , the dead eyes , the tears that said how he longed to stay . |
| 25 | To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously . |
| 26 | Facings had been something of a nightmare then , a closed book of mysterious rites that led , finally , her teacher assured her , to the temple of tailoring . |
| 27 | He seems to have returned briefly to Massachusetts , perhaps in connection with his property there , but was back in England by 1643 , in the service of the younger Sir Henry Vane [ q.v. ] , who as governor of the Bay colony at a precociously early age had been something of a fellow-traveller with the alleged heretics . |
| 28 | Finding , therefore , the opportunity , marshalling the words with which to approach his lordship , had been something of a rite of passage for George . |
| 29 | There had been something of a reproof in that letter , even though no word of it had been written openly . |
| 30 | His father had been something of a rough diamond , barely literate and excelling in " drinking , whoring , gaming , fishing and fighting " . |