Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 5 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 6 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 11 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 12 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |