Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 2 | She had been quite unprepared for his beauty and his otherness . |
| 3 | Yet she knew it was there , in the background , darkening all her thoughts , rendering her sleepless in the nights following their departure and also confirming something of which she had been dimly aware for a long time . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had been too old for parenthood , and then it was very sad for a girl to lose her father in her teens . |
| 5 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 6 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 7 | But later , I realized that it had been quite good for me and stopped me getting big-headed . |
| 8 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 9 | It had been too accessible for its own long-term good in 1989 . |
| 10 | It had been too incredible for words to describe . |
| 11 | In the 1920s it had been relatively easy for the students to obtain good jobs : but not now . |
| 12 | It had been relatively constant for at least the previous three centuries as shown by the work of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure ( Laslett and Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 13 | It had been very different for her but he could n't be held responsible for her folly . |
| 14 | It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst . |
| 15 | You know that , ’ she replied , and discovered that Travis , more interested in his love-life than hers , wanted to talk about Rosemary and how much he missed seeing her and the fact that he had been so lonesome for her that he 'd phoned her flat several times yesterday evening and , receiving no reply , had realised she must still be at her parents ' home . |
| 16 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
| 17 | It was a unique triumph in the annals of attempted colonisation in the Americas : he had been extraordinarily well-prepared for their attack . |
| 18 | For the past two years , although he lacked the metropolitan powers of an archbishop , he had been fully responsible for maintaining the possessions and privileges of Christ Church , Canterbury . |
| 19 | ‘ When I went to see him , he had been very ill for three years . |