Example sentences of "had been [adj] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David , who had to leave Tyneside after telling his parents last year that he was transexual , had been due to become the North 's first female master chef . |
| 2 | Mr Gray said the Distone order had not been to V Corps , but to the neighbouring XIII Corps , and Lord Aldington had been correct to follow the Robertson order . |
| 3 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 4 | But no-one had been able to match the Lancashire company 's price . |
| 5 | Twelve years earlier , in 1970 , the Soviet Union had been unable to restrain the PFLP from provoking a showdown with Jordan . |