Example sentences of "[pron] had been [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 2 | The defence which had been suspect all season became vulnerable and the forwards simply could not score goals , so poor Palace fell out of the bottom of Division Two . |
| 3 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 4 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 5 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 6 | She had been aware enough of him before . |
| 7 | At the time , advertising was full of the best and the brightest Oxbridge type , not someone coming from Sussex who had been left-wing all of his life , like Philip . ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 9 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 10 | Perhaps they were too busy to feel queasy , but as far as I was concerned , before we had been airborne half an hour I felt like crying out , ‘ Stop the plane , I want to get off ! ’ |
| 11 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 12 | They had been active all week , unsettling me with their noise . |
| 13 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 14 | His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ? |
| 15 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 16 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 17 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 18 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |