Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had been a loyal colleague for many years , respected by parents and children alike , and since the accident had proved a trusted friend and companion . |
| 32 | She had been a slender , tallish , very young girl . |
| 33 | She had been a clerk-receptionist phone-answerer-teamaker and she had got the job through her uncle Bob who was as near to being a friend of Thomas Walby 's as it was possible to be . |
| 34 | Sad thing was she had been a noted dancer in her day . |
| 35 | She had been a good woman . |
| 36 | She had been a good wife , too . |
| 37 | Nevertheless she had been a good , kind sister and looked after him very well . |
| 38 | She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him . |
| 39 | Behavioural precursors of schizophrenia included a poor emotional rapport in the psychiatric interview , and parental observations that he or she had been a passive baby , with a short attention span in childhood , and often impolite behaviour , while school reports often noted that the child was isolated , uneasy about criticism , easily upset , and disturbed the class ( Parnas et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 40 | She had been a big brawny vision in her youth , with an encouraging hint of rural gullibility in the breadth of her eyes and lips . |
| 41 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 42 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 43 | She had been a little waif then , in her Yorkshire homespun . |
| 44 | She had been a little brick , Doreen . |
| 45 | She had been a top model — her legs alone were insured for a five figure sum and he had enough hanging on him to bankrupt a smaller company . |
| 46 | Whereas before she had been a rough-and-ready Italian peasant , flashing with high spirits , now she thought a little about how she seemed to others and tempered her boisterous good humour . |
| 47 | She had been a silent , remote member of the household , retiring into the shadows as much as possible , quickly forgotten . |
| 48 | She had been a bustling energetic woman , always in a hurry , always busy , but here in her last will and testament she had uncovered some of the disappointment of her life , which no one had ever guessed . |
| 49 | She had been a true sister to Ryan . |
| 50 | Left wing Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside from 1974–87 , she had been a senior officer in the agricultural workers union and was chair for eight years of the Campaign Group of Labour Mps . |
| 51 | I had been afraid of her at Oxford where she had been a quick , intense , thundery girl who rarely bothered to talk to other women . |
| 52 | She had been an exemplary , modest public servant , hoping to build a more just world . |
| 53 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 54 | It turned out that she and her husband were experts on reincarnation and ran a sort of reincarnation centre in Switzerland and she had been an Egyptian princess — before , you know — and written books about it . |
| 55 | I was already aware at the age of eleven of my mother 's political background : she had been an active Communist until 1965 . |
| 56 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 57 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 58 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 59 | If you had been a young person at the beginning of this century , you may have been in ‘ in service ’ , working as a maid or servant for a wealthy family . |
| 60 | Perhaps if you had been a different sort of person — less sensitive , less driven by the bitterness of your mother … ’ |