Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him .
2 Only now did I realize that I loved this man to whose power I had been subject all my life .
3 The hot date — the central groove I had been wire brushing — swooned at the sight of them .
4 I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care .
5 He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it .
6 The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything …
7 On May 11 the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the largest party at national level , won a seat in the Sabah State Assembly for the first time , defeating the candidate of the ruling United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) which had been part of the UMNO-led National Front central government coalition until just before the October 1990 general election [ see pp. 37780-81 ] .
8 The art awards , he continued , were in keeping with the best traditions of the P&O SN Co , which had been part if the maritime history and development of Australia since 1852 .
9 The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes .
10 Some districts which had been forest in 1300 were however excluded in 1641 .
11 And she had been fool enough to let him draw her in to it .
12 She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family .
13 Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun .
14 She had come all the way from Wales , where she had been Second in the Bwbachod Six of her Brownie Guide Pack .
15 Highly regarded by Elizabeth Woodville , she had been lady of the bedchamber until her retirement and was one of the queen-dowager 's closest friends .
16 ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ .
17 She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another .
18 Out on the fringes of the Vartaq Veil , looking for traces of her lost father , she had been part of a team excavating a Dyson sphere constructed around a white dwarf star .
19 Before he 'd interfered in her life she had been part of a team , doing a job that she enjoyed well .
20 A 15-year-old Darlington girl admitted yesterday that she had been part of a gang which broke into the town 's Salvation Army Hostel .
21 She had been stone deaf , as well .
22 She had been Form Mistress of Junior C from 1950 to 1962 and taught with patience , sympathy , and understanding , introducing many boys not only to drama ( as was to be expected ) but also to cricket and football .
23 And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations .
24 And Laura — if she had been earth and water as she shaped her pots , she was now , like Cleopatra , all fire and air .
25 ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death .
26 Before retiring in 1951 , she had been director of the Army 's European relief project , arranging the return to Germany of refugees from Russia and elsewhere after the huge migrations at the end of the war in Europe , and was later secretary of the war graves ' department .
27 She had been director of market planning at Adobe Systems Inc .
28 After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff .
29 But whether she had been right or wrong , Hugo had been allowed off the hook .
30 On May 18 the Supreme Soviet in Azerbaijan elected Ayaz Niyaz ogly Mutalibov , the Azerbaijan Communist Party first secretary , to the post of President of the Republic , and Elmira Kafarova to the separate post of Chair of the Supreme Soviet ( previously she had been Chair of the Supreme Soviet Presidium ) .
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