Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been aware on visits of the changes she had brought into the house , in the food which was more elaborate , recipes culled from women 's magazines , the odd touches about the place , the fact that the bowl full of bulbs was placed on a mat , there were extra arm covers on the chairs , a lace cloth on the chest of drawers in my room , everything had to be protected . |
| 2 | She had been keen on the idea and had talked of planting more spruce for the specific object of selling them as trees at Christmas but she had died before they could do anything more about it . |
| 3 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 4 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 5 | In three short months she did n't need the medication she had been dependent on for years . |
| 6 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 7 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 8 | His hair , by contrast , fell untidily to his shoulders and his patchy beard looked as though it had been stuck on at random . |
| 9 | She was wearing a chartreuse dress that looked as if it had been spray-painted on . |
| 10 | For some time now , and urged on by the old man 's taunts , he had been intent on fathering a child of his own . |
| 11 | Acting in steely self-interest , he had been intent on softening her up before he pounced ! |
| 12 | He said that he had been alone on the platform of Grahamston station shortly after midnight waiting to meet a friend on an Edinburgh-bound train . |
| 13 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |