Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been an assistant stage manager and a deputy stage manager at the Northcott Theatre , Exeter , before I went to drama school . |
| 2 | By the time I left his office , I felt as if I had been an established outside-left for years , ’ Bastin later recalled . |
| 3 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 4 | ’ So this particular sergeant who had been a PC when I had been an acting sergeant , sat alongside me . |
| 5 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 6 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 7 | It turned out that she and her husband were experts on reincarnation and ran a sort of reincarnation centre in Switzerland and she had been an Egyptian princess — before , you know — and written books about it . |
| 8 | I was already aware at the age of eleven of my mother 's political background : she had been an active Communist until 1965 . |
| 9 | IT is sad that a pub should turn you away simply for the kind of fashion you decide to adopt , particularly since you had been an accepted customer for some years . |
| 10 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 11 | If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’ |
| 12 | And er of course he went in , he was real regimental , again he 'd been an old soldier . |
| 13 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 14 | The hours undergoing questioning at the police headquarters were an added strain ; but it had been an extra strain , too , waiting to be questioned , and not knowing when or if it would happen . |
| 15 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |
| 16 | It had been an historic day for the future of Zimbala — and it was all down to the tactful diplomacy of Jamel Mobuto . |
| 17 | He had a right to be suspicious this time , but he had n't known that ; it had been an automatic reaction to her receiving a call . |
| 18 | By the end of the century it had sold 1,250,000 copies and unlike Allon 's own collection of hymns , it had been an official publication , part of the growth in musical taste and improved choirs . |
| 19 | The article headlined ‘ The Nuclear Express ! ’ was full of good positive statements about this transport and concluded : ‘ It had been an eye-opening day for me on Britain 's safest train ’ . |
| 20 | And yet , looking back , it had been an odd encounter . |
| 21 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 22 | It had been an unsettling evening . |
| 23 | He had become a major in the military at twenty four and achieved much in the world in prosperity and position , but it had been an uphill climb . |
| 24 | It had been an organised demonstration of Fascist power and the authority of leadership . |
| 25 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 26 | And conditions were still at just about the same , but it had been an old hotel , so all the rooms at the top were left just as the bedrooms would have been , so you went up and down steps , and along corridors . |
| 27 | It had been an unspectacular grind with little let-up . |
| 28 | But solicitor Ray Tooth , who represented the wife in the £1 million split , said yesterday that it had been an exceptional case . |
| 29 | Then , it had been an austere place , with only plain wooden furniture , painted dull red , to relieve the stark whiteness of the walls . |
| 30 | At the ‘ 19th ’ all prizes were presented by Captain , Danny Sproull where everyone agreed that it had been an enjoyable outing . |