Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 2 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 3 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 4 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 5 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 6 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 7 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 8 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 9 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 10 | At the onset she had been referred to a surgeon and had a normal barium enema and chest x ray . |
| 11 | She could n't remember the details , only the sense of confusion that everything was different — the language , the schools she had been sent to one after another . |
| 12 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 13 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 14 | According to the Sun the man walked free after telling guards he had been attacked in the incident on Tuesday . |
| 15 | Like many other boys with India in his blood he had been forced into rootlessness by education . |
| 16 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 17 | It rescues psychoanalysis from the confusions it had been led into by seeing itself as a natural science , like physics or chemistry . |
| 18 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 19 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 20 | For months he had been haunted by his memories of the battle of Toulouse ; reliving the bowel-loosening terror he had felt at that last conflict of the last war . |
| 21 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 22 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 23 | The sun I had been dreaming of was dark , and the real sun was nothing : nothing but what it was . |
| 24 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 25 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 26 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 27 | In this dream she had been locked into the school library with an exam paper containing one question and one only : Compare and contrast narrative method in Proust and Tom Jones . |
| 28 | Before the end of July we had been visited by General Gough . |
| 29 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 30 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |