Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As most of their expansion had been in transport sectors , it was a natural step for them to try switching production from trucks to tanks . |
| 2 | His last sight of her reliquary had been at morning Mass . |
| 3 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 4 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 5 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 6 | The experience has already been invaluable , as proved in the recent World Cup when the backbone of our team had been to the 1990 CANZ series where we lost all four matches ’ . |