Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 2 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 3 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 4 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 5 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 6 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 7 | ‘ Mama never spoke of her family , insisting that she had been born an orphan , ’ Joan said , still unable to fully comprehend that she was not whom she had thought she was . |
| 8 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 9 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 10 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 11 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 12 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 13 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 14 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 15 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 16 | If a group of young people , from all races , all countries and bearing all creeds were gathered together after having been introduced to the concept of the Created God , and were able to set aside , for the time being , their own taught beliefs , they would find that they had been offered an area of religious discussion which would be on completely neutral ground . |
| 17 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 18 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 19 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 20 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 21 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
| 22 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 23 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 24 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 25 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 26 | Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree . |
| 27 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 28 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 29 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 30 | While he had been talking an Arabic serving-woman had silently entered the room . |