Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 2 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 3 | She had been such a fine woman . |
| 4 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 5 | She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now . |
| 6 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 7 | Always , in the past , it had been such a jolly day . |
| 8 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 9 | It had been such a confusing time for her — the quarrel with Stephen and her mother 's death following so closely . |
| 10 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 11 | It had been such a lovely evening . |
| 12 | It had been such a stupid little exchange , the words in themselves meaning nothing , yet here she was , trembling like a colt . |
| 13 | It had been such a little hurt . |
| 14 | It had been such a traumatic , agonising time , even now she could n't talk about it without feeling pain . |
| 15 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |
| 16 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 17 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 18 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 19 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 20 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |