Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 2 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 3 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 4 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 5 | First of all I had been subjected to two substantial costs consequent upon some unexplained administrative delay . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 7 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 8 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 9 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 10 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 11 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 12 | She had been born in 1688 in Marston St. Lawrence , and had married Richard Jennens of Mollington , Oxfordshire , in 1708 [ Baker , 1 , 720 ] . |
| 13 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 14 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 15 | But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another . |
| 16 | ‘ She had been warned on four previous occasions about going overdrawn . |
| 17 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 18 | She had been sentenced to three months in jail . |
| 19 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 20 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 21 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 22 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 23 | She had been told on one occasion by the EP that Tom 's behaviour problems might have been the result of frustration over reading difficulties . |
| 24 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 25 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 26 | She had been widowed for five months , very nearly . |
| 27 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 28 | She died in her sleep at Nyack Hospital , north of New York , where she had been admitted on 9 March suffering from congestive heart failure . |
| 29 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 30 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |