Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
2 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and SeƱora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
3 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
4 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
5 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
6 | It had been like this last night . |
7 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
8 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
9 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
10 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
11 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
12 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
13 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |