Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been a good wife , too . |
| 2 | She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him . |
| 3 | She had been a good woman . |
| 4 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 5 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |
| 6 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |
| 7 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 8 | In Norwich , Christmas was ‘ reasonable but not exceptional ’ for Jarrolds , according to Barbara Gaskin , but it had been a good year and will see Jarrolds 8% up on 1991 . |
| 9 | But it had been a good day . |
| 10 | Lugh was not sure , now , if it had been a good idea to bring Dorrainge . |
| 11 | His huge opponent lay defeated and bloodied , and his blood-lust was more than satisfied ; it had been a good night and it was time to go . |
| 12 | It had been a good lunch and conversation had been light and easy . |
| 13 | It was a crap heap , really by the time he 'd got it , but you know , it had been a good car . |
| 14 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 15 | Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted . |
| 16 | It had been a good joke . |
| 17 | It had been a good dinner and the réserve maison had sent pleasant messages around her system , signifying that after the adventures of the day , all was now well . |
| 18 | Mr. O'Callaghan said it had been a good contest and the closeness in the result showed how evenly the teams were matched . |
| 19 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 20 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 21 | He had been a good nome in his way , they said . |
| 22 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 23 | If he had been a better negotiator , he would have closed the sale that day . |
| 24 | Said Platt : ‘ The haggling over the contract spoiled what had been a good summer for me . |