Example sentences of "had be do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 2 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 3 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 4 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 5 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 6 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 7 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 8 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 9 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 10 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 11 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 12 | But , of course , one had been doing all these things , ad nauseam . |
| 13 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 14 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 15 | p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid . |
| 16 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 17 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 18 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 19 | No one had been doing any proper hunting for days , because Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) would provide , according to Nisodemus . |