Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 3 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 4 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 5 | She had been aware enough of him before . |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 8 | They had been active all week , unsettling me with their noise . |
| 9 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |