Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His name was Roberto Coloni and he had been in hospital following a bad fall in which he had broken his shoulder blade , forearm and two ribs , as well as suffering bad concussion , which had affected his hearing . |
| 2 | And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own . |
| 3 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 4 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 5 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 6 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 7 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |