Example sentences of "[pron] had be a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I just wish I had been a man , that 's all . |
| 2 | Last time I had been a fool enough to close French doors and knew they were there only frantic moments later , when I saw blood spatter my wrists and hands , like a fly buzzing , like a bird beating against the see-through reality . |
| 3 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 4 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 5 | He had been curled up there , dead in his basket , since I had been a child in a velvet-collared coat . |
| 6 | I think it was his fourth , but as I had been a child during this proliferation of fiancées I was n't certain . |
| 7 | Mr Singh , a Kenyan Asian , confessed to me , after I had been a friend of the family for several years , that he was neither fluent in Swahili , the language of his education up to 13 , nor in Punjabi , his mother tongue . |
| 8 | I had been a gang leader in Harehills — first administering the lives of younger children , then by brass , bossiness and imagination extending judgement even over older boys . |
| 9 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 10 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |
| 11 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 12 | In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ . |
| 13 | So I had been a visitor , and an occasional attender at the X-ray Department , but all that was spread over many years . |
| 14 | I had been a thing of firm , clear outlines ; now I seemed to splay out in all directions and to have assumed a shape , thanks to undue accretions of flesh , which bore no relation to the person I believed to exist within it . |
| 15 | All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment . |
| 16 | Last night , , this Sunday , all I had was a banana at lunchtime , had n't eaten all day or drunk , I had two glasses of water |
| 17 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 18 | Theirs had been a friendship she 'd trusted and valued . |
| 19 | He also suggested that their had been a clash of opinions . |
| 20 | Over at the west end of Hury there was a house which had been a pub called the Hare and Hounds , occupied by a family who were rather special to me . |
| 21 | Afghanistan , which had been a monarchy until a coup in 1973 , was declared a Democratic Republic in 1978 following a second coup led by the communist People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) , which installed a government largely comprising its own members . |
| 22 | Afghanistan , which had been a monarchy until 1973 , was then declared a republic following a coup . |
| 23 | The Dnestr region , however , in the east of Moldava , with a population of 700,000 mainly Russian speakers , which had been a part of Ukraine before it was incorporated into the Moldavan territory annexed by Stalin from Romania in 1940 , declared its wish to remain part of the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | The lauding of Hitler 's modesty was compared with the tone of self-praise with regard to his own work and effort which had been a feature of his New Year address . |
| 25 | Observers noted an absence of the intimidation and violence which had been a feature of previous elections , all of which had been closely fought . |
| 26 | It seems more than likely that with parishes concentrating on basic food needs , the other kinds of discretionary payments , which had been a feature of the eighteenth-century poor , were made less often and with declining generosity . |
| 27 | The German Air Ministry building in the Leipzigstrasse , for example , which had been a target since September 1940 , remained unscathed until it suffered slight damage in a US daylight raid in 1944 ! |
| 28 | On the issue of economic integration , delegates heard that only some dozen states had so far opted to adhere to the treaty instituting an African Economic Community ( AEC ) , which had been a focus for optimism at the OAU 1991 summit . |
| 29 | On the issue of economic integration , delegates heard that only some dozen states had so far opted to adhere to the treaty instituting an African Economic Community ( AEC ) , which had been a focus for optimism at the OAU 1991 summit . |
| 30 | After swimming she had felt completely alive and glad to be awake and have this time of her own , which had been a gift to her from Tom and Maggie . |