Example sentences of "had been [adj] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walter had been friendly with David in England and when he came to Scotland , David granted him lands in Ayrshire , Renfrewshire , Argyll , Bute and the Lothians . |
| 2 | The uprising continued along the same lines as the bread riots which had been rife in Russia at that time and so the Tsarina was worried but thinks everything will be alright and informed the Tsar , who was away inspecting troops , to this effect . |
| 3 | In particular Jan had been impressed with Kylie after seeing her on The Zoo Family . |
| 4 | The first major film to deal with Vietnam was John Wayne 's The Green Berets ( 1968 ) about the US Army Special Forces units , which had been present in Vietnam in an advisory capacity since 1957 . |
| 5 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 6 | The weather had been typical for August with a period of heavy rain and the men returning to work found that a land slip had occurred . |
| 7 | William had been involved with Clydesdales since his boyhood and in 1897 he bought two good mature stallions and a fine brood mare with which he established Dunure Mains as a stud . |
| 8 | He had been violent towards Ann on several occasions . |
| 9 | It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again . |
| 10 | Throughout her life , she had been grateful to Somerville for teaching her to think and to write . |
| 11 | The previous one , 1975 , had been very good , especially the latter part , but that one , the summer of Hilbert 's death and of Ecalpemos , had been glorious from April till September . |
| 12 | So he had been churlish to Carol after all . |
| 13 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 14 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |
| 15 | Craig had been wonderful to Hari during the past days , she did n't think she could have got through it all without him . |
| 16 | How absurd it seemed — that they had been worried about Therese in Zarewitsch . |
| 17 | The common feature in these five cases is that the mother had been resident in Seascale at some time since the early 1950s , when the Sellafield nuclear plant came into operation . |
| 18 | Archipenko and La Fresnaye , who had been unknown to Gleizes before the Salon des Indépendants of 1911 , began to frequent the Mondays at Courbevoie . |