Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 2 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
| 3 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 4 | She chose you , and she can as well abandon you if she chooses , and you had better be on your guard in future , for she wo n't put up with another such turmoil upsetting her established rule . |
| 5 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 6 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 7 | ‘ When ? ’ she questioned , feeling her palms already starting to itch — and she had n't been in his company five minutes yet ! |
| 8 | In fact , they had already become good friends when she had played Mrs Murray in Eh ? with him at Circle-In-The-Square , and she had also been in The Tiger Makes Out . |
| 9 | She was twenty-five and she had never been in the tube . |
| 10 | And she had never been in the London Underground . |
| 11 | Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced . |
| 12 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 13 | Only by now there were n't any more southbound stages and there had n't been for over a week . |
| 14 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 15 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 16 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 17 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 18 | But she had only been on the mountain for two hours , three at the most . |
| 19 | She meant his earnings , not the yield of the toy-shop business , but she had never been in the habit of referring to them so distinctly , let alone to the fact that they were thin on the ground at the moment . |
| 20 | But he had n't been at the PCC because of recovering , still , from the flu . |
| 21 | Peter was a poor salesman , but he had n't been at DPR quite long enough yet to get sacked . |
| 22 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 23 | But it had n't been like that . |