Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] had been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 3 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 4 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 5 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 6 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 7 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 8 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 9 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |