Example sentences of "had been [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three days later Ainsworth went to the landlord , Liverpool Housing Trust and said he had been illegally sub-letting the flat . |
| 2 | He was an opportunist , who took advantage of the chances fate laid out for him , and this last weekend had been just such an example . |
| 3 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 4 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 5 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
| 6 | But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ? |
| 7 | Monday afternoon in the House of Commons had been as great a triumph for him ( although he had said practically nothing ) as it had been a disaster for Churchill . |
| 8 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 9 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 10 | Of course , she missed her family , but her father 's promotion to foreign correspondent had been too good a chance for him to miss . |
| 11 | True , he had struggled at first to satisfy his beautiful young bride ; he had been too long a bachelor and too set in his ways . |
| 12 | She had been too long the creature of thought , and now she had seen . |
| 13 | After Hugh 's dismissal in 1172 Louis VII kept the office vacant for some years : Hugh had been too great a man for it to be wise or safe to raise up a successor to him . |
| 14 | Perhaps that had been too personal a remark . |
| 15 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 16 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 17 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 18 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 19 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 20 | Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm . |
| 21 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |