Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 2 | So I had been right about that . |
| 3 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 4 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 5 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 6 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 7 | The storeroom ( yes , she had been right about that after all ) was not very big and not very well lit . |
| 8 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 9 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 10 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 11 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 12 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 13 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 14 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 15 | She had been precious to each of them . |
| 16 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 17 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 18 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 19 | ‘ IN APRIL 1992 , a researcher from the BBC 's dramatised documentary programme ‘ 999 ’ contacted our Community Education Department asking if we had been involved in any unusual incident where rescues had been carried out . |
| 20 | As Ari and Nathan went through the shop , Roirbak remembered with mixed feelings that Zambia and Tammuz might still be in there , and then wondered if some evil part of him had been aware of that all along . |
| 21 | They had been close like this before but not at Felipe 's instigation . |
| 22 | Since then they had been awkward in each other 's company and everything seemed to have gone wrong . |
| 23 | He did not say whether they had been involved in any of the English advice or whether they were advising on the valuations as going concerns as bus stations or advising on the development values . |
| 24 | The three alleged leaders arrested were Moslem Brotherhood members , although their lawyer on March 15 denied that they had been involved in any type of illegal activity . |
| 25 | The performance of students was also examined with regard to whether or not they had been involved in some type of formal study during the two years prior to entry to the DipHE . |
| 26 | Young , innocent , they had been malleable in those hands which were so practised in making something valuable out of raw or damaged material . |
| 27 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 28 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 29 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 30 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |