Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 2 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 3 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 4 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 5 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 6 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 7 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 8 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 9 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 10 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 11 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 12 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 13 | She had been seriously into pink for a year ; Victoria indulged her with delight and stifled the protests of her own aesthetic sense . |
| 14 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 15 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 16 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 17 | The Lords were more diehard , as they had been ever since 1911 , but unless their powers were restored they would denounce the government in vain . |
| 18 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 19 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 20 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 21 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 22 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 23 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 24 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 25 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 26 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 27 | The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918 . |
| 28 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 29 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 30 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |