Example sentences of "[pron] had been [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
| 2 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 3 | Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement . |
| 4 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 5 | An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats . |
| 6 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
| 7 | Tamar sat and talked quietly , telling her Uncle about her life and about Victoria , who had been only a small child when he had last seen her . |
| 8 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 9 | But there had been only a small decrease in mental hospital beds and little sign of a significant shift to different forms of care . |
| 10 | There had been quite a few successful ones , however . |
| 11 | Merseyside or Tyneside there had been almost a general deindustrialization . |
| 12 | There had been half a dozen bottles of red wine left standing in a corner of the huge kitchen hearth . |
| 13 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 14 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 15 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 16 | The sixth , published in 1752 and dedicated to the Earl of Northumberland , had an elaborate frontispiece ( hitherto it had been just a large formal garden with a plantation in the distance ) etched and engraved by Edward Rooker ( 1711–74 ) , after a drawing by Samuel Wade of an allegorical group showing Britannia receiving the fruits of the earth . |
| 17 | It had been quite a good summer in some ways . |
| 18 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 19 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 20 | On April 25 this reported that the security forces were to blame for provoking violence from what had been previously a peaceful crowd by making baton charges . |
| 21 | In Germany , too , a new situation brought forth new institutions and a vast expansion of what had been hitherto a limited and rather ineffective opinion-forming effort . |
| 22 | What had been only a dense red glow when I first looked into the chamber was now a torrent of liquid flame . |