Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ianthe remembered that Miss Grimes had been to Spain for her holiday one year , but she supposed that she must have bought the wine specially when Ianthe had said she was coming to see her . |
| 2 | Maldom Bada had been under arrest since the alleged coup attempt of October 1991 [ see p. 38519 ] and his inclusion therefore signified his political rehabilitation . |
| 3 | Strong , colourful midfield player or striker , Andy Gray had been with the Palace as a schoolboy during the Terry Venables era at Selhurst Park , but disappeared into non-league soccer so that it was actually from Dulwich Hamlet that Manager Steve Coppell initially signed him for The Eagles in November 1984 . |
| 4 | Mrs. Browne had been at their Mayfair flat and seen them all off together . |
| 5 | Suppose Mrs. McLoughlin had been at the scene of the accident ; according to conventionalism she would have a legal right to recover in virtue of past decisions . |
| 6 | In this case Miss T. had been during her childhood subjected to the religious beliefs of her mother and in her weakened medical condition , in pain , and under the influence of the drugs administered to assist her , the pressure from her mother was likely to have a considerably enhanced effect . |
| 7 | A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter . |
| 8 | Richard Nixon had been in the House and the Senate and vice-president for eight years , but ultimately he proved to be a disastrous president . |
| 9 | It was , said the paper , a ‘ found object ’ , but by then David Robins had been in touch with the group , and was to share a house with one of their then leading London lights , Chris Grey . |
| 10 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 11 | Marie Claire had been like my mother . |
| 12 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 13 | She was about to risk departing for an early lunch , a move which she would not have dared to make if Miss Coldharbour had been in the office , but Julia gathered she was out for the morning and not expected in until two fifteen . |
| 14 | David Smith had been under suspension since the complaint was made . |
| 15 | Colin Youngs had been in his garden when he saw William Wray approach his friend and a scuffle start . |
| 16 | Commentators suggested that the Khmers Rouges had been under pressure from their Chinese backers to accept the Sihanouk plan . |
| 17 | Three families in Ayrshire , for instance , who had eight children taken away in a raid in June 1990 ; little was heard of their situation until after the Orkney case had been in the headlines for some time . |
| 18 | Frank Adler had been in 2nd place at the end of the first lap , eventually dropping back to 9th , the best German result in the Quincey Cup series . |
| 19 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 20 | All this activity left little time for photography but , even after returning to the States to continue his work for the FSA , Delano never lost sight of the fact that his introduction to Puerto Rico had been through a camera . |
| 21 | If Liam Brady had been at Windsor Park yesterday he would n't have hesitated to reach for his cheque-book . |
| 22 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 23 | When she was young , Aunt Bessie had been in service for a well-off family with a certain Mrs Leigh , who lived in Colne in Lancashire . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher stonewalled her way through Question Time , repeatedly arguing that the Rover deal had been in the best interests of the taxpayer . |
| 25 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 26 | Detective Chief Inspector John Leicester Finch and Detective Constable Robert Turner had been on trial for eighteen days at Luton Crown Court . |
| 27 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |
| 28 | A customs officer involved in the case said Mr Bradburn had been under surveillance for weeks when he was arrested . |
| 29 | Mr Stevenson had been on holiday in Wales , and he had been exploring our beautiful mountains and valleys . |
| 30 | David O'Neill , a consultant physician , said that Mr Robinson had been in an agitated and delirious state . |