Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 2 | She 's a grey figure by comparison , Lee thought , muted where she had been abrasive , withdrawn when she had been a firebrand . |
| 3 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 4 | He had subsequently taken her to the cinema , where she had been startled to feel his hand creep into hers . |
| 5 | Consequently a widow or widower will enjoy a higher retirement income than if or she had been single when they retired . |
| 6 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 7 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 8 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 9 | They lived on East Broadway where they had been able to afford property . |
| 10 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 11 | George joined Historic Scotland in 1992 from the Scottish Office 's Graphics Group , where he had been involved in the production of models and display materials since 1968 . |
| 12 | He was released yesterday from Pentonville prison where he had been due to serve a 112-day sentence for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance arrears to estranged wife Becky . |
| 13 | The most significant move in his cabinet reshuffle on April 21st was to shift Joe Clark from external affairs , where he had been nimble and sensible , to be the minister responsible for constitutional affairs — that is , in charge of saving Canadian unity . |
| 14 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 15 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 16 | Engineers in Germany successfully fired thrusters on Aug. 7 to boost the European Space Agency ( ESA ) US$400,000,000 Eureka research satellite to an altitude of 507 km from a dangerously low orbit of 100km where it had been stuck due to data communication problems . |
| 17 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 18 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 19 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 20 | I decided this would be a good experimental site on which to try my new detector , and for the first hour of detecting felt that I had been right in my assumption that I had really cleaned this place out . |
| 21 | Jan was briskly maternal , having decided that I had been Wronged . |
| 22 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 23 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 24 | It was quite phenomenal and I felt that I had been privileged to run in such a race . |
| 25 | I could accept that I had been foolish , but that acceptance was not yet a sufficient antidote for the niggling little pain in my heart . |
| 26 | So I said that I had been lucky in a draw for leave , and that now Montague was dead I was to rejoin my original battalion . |
| 27 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 30 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |