Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I had been lifeless jumble of miscellaneous body parts but now I was Frankenstein 's monster , shocked by lust into coherence and action . |
| 2 | Because in my last five years before [ becoming Prime Minister ] I had been Foreign Secretary [ and ] , therefore , away a lot . |
| 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 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |
| 5 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 6 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 7 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 8 | She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener . |
| 9 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 10 | She had immediately closed her mind to all thought , not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan 's hand . |
| 11 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 12 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 13 | For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen . |
| 14 | If you had been Chief Onlaf , in which order of importance would you have placed the seven requirements for a suitable village site ? |
| 15 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 16 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 17 | They had been suffering trading reverses and were anxious to increase their status . |
| 18 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
| 19 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 20 | They had been communicating disapproval , anger , behind that closed door . |
| 21 | They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere . |
| 22 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 23 | It had been frustrating hanging about the beach beneath Four Winds , watching Celia and the nursemaid spend what seemed to Freddie endless hours doing nothing much at all . |
| 24 | From that first introduction it had been all-out war . |
| 25 | It had been great fun , much more so than he had anticipated . |
| 26 | It had been great fun . |
| 27 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 28 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 29 | It had been utter surprise and defeat , casualties grievous . |
| 30 | It had been traditional weather , with snow and frosty mornings to highlight the glittering hilly landscape of North Derbyshire , where we had enjoyed our Christmas holiday . |