Example sentences of "[pron] had been [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S and er two or three friends , oh I , I had been on a number of cruises before that , to Germany , to Norway and Sweden , to Denmark . |
| 2 | I remembered how once when I had been in a crowd teasing an awkward boy at school I had noticed his terror and been glad I was not him . |
| 3 | This was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of branches , from 158 in 1953–54 to 189 in 1957–58 ; losses in Bedfordshire ( 15 branches down to 11 ) and the Fenland ( 23 down to 15 ) , both of which had been without a tutor-organiser for much of the period , were more than offset by gains everywhere else , notably in Essex ( 27 branches up to 40 ) and Suffolk ( 14 up to 32 ) . |
| 4 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 5 | The biggest loss I recorded was 11oz in a 9lb 5oz bream which had been in a keepnet for nine hours . |
| 6 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 7 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 8 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 9 | Ever since she had met him she had been on a roller-coaster , going up and down and swerving from one emotional crisis to another . |
| 10 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 11 | She had been on a refresher course . |
| 12 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 13 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 14 | Before Lesley met Alan , she had been to a party where she got drunk and ended up sleeping with someone without knowing it . |
| 15 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
| 16 | As she moved , her body ached as if she had been in a fight . |
| 17 | Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it . |
| 18 | Mr McBaine said , however , that she had been in a position of trust . |
| 19 | She had been in a squat in London but had thought it would be pleasant to have some sea air for the baby for the summer . |
| 20 | She had been in a state of shock . |
| 21 | Half an hour ago she had been in a heaven of love with the enraged man before her . |
| 22 | But she had been in a coma , she was n't mad . |
| 23 | If Gloria , she had been in a smash . |
| 24 | She had been like a barrier between Jessamy and her husband , not particularly important but always there , irritating and chafing , like a stone in the shoe . |
| 25 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 26 | A four week challenge was performed on 20 children who had been on a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |
| 27 | Another incident in the same Shop involved a man who had been on a Government course on turning . |
| 28 | While they were there , Peggy ( who had been at a boarding school in Pretoria ) was able to resume her ballet classes . |
| 29 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 30 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |