Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adj] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 2 | Perhaps they were too busy to feel queasy , but as far as I was concerned , before we had been airborne half an hour I felt like crying out , ‘ Stop the plane , I want to get off ! ’ |
| 3 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 4 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 5 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |