Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roz Hatch had been a real looker in her time , and the family portrait said one thing to Cowley above all else : we stick together . |
| 2 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 3 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 4 | Andrew Jean had been a good ‘ pomp , a good gangbuddy . |
| 5 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 6 | Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street . |
| 7 | Jerome Fanshawe had been an affluent stockbroker . |
| 8 | Friday had been a busy day . |
| 9 | The Issak had been the main casualties in the government 's campaign to stamp out support for the rebel Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 10 | Mehmed II , however , angered because Molla Yegan had been an active and very vocal opponent of the siege , retorted that it was his sword , not Molla Yegan 's prayers , which had achieved the victory . |
| 11 | Mrs Petrov had been a senior Russian agent in Sweden and after her defection Swedish intelligence visited Australia and obtained much useful information from her about the networks she had established in their country .. |
| 12 | Kylie had been a 13-year-old slip of a thing when she had last stayed with Dennis and Joan in their home in the village of Cymmer . |
| 13 | The assassins had never been traced , and the British authorities had said they were Sinn Feiners ; it was a stupid accusation , for MacCurtain had been a staunch Republican himself , so nobody had any doubt that the killers were Black and Tans . |
| 14 | There was in fact no shortage of evidence , even by those that were opposed to him , that Stalin had been an outstanding leader ( she quoted Winston Churchill to this effect , as well as de Gaulle and others ) . |
| 15 | At one time , the Order of True Valiance had been a strong and powerful body of men , slaves to no one and nothing . |
| 16 | Mr Leach had told the court that Curtis had been a staunch supporter of the anti-smoking campaign and that his father had died from lung cancer . |
| 17 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 18 | The loss of his agents amongst the Ping Tiao had been a serious setback , and the men he had bought from amongst their ranks had proved unsatisfactory in almost every respect . |
| 19 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 20 | Apart from Granny Tremayne , Edna had been the only other permanent reliable character in Celia 's youth . |
| 21 | Prior to a right-wing military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte in September 1973 [ see pp. 26151-52 ] , Chile had been a parliamentary democracy with an executive President and a National Congress elected by universal adult suffrage . |
| 22 | Henry Phipps had been the chief celebrant at this particular form of ‘ get-together ’ , and now someone had brought his priapic revels to a rather spectacular end . |
| 23 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 24 | The Crimea had been an autonomous republic from 1921 to 1945 . |
| 25 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 26 | Tom Reynolds had been a loyal and useful ally but now his usefulness was almost at an end . |
| 27 | If Ramsbum had been a human being Amiss might have suspected that he was seriously feeling grief . |
| 28 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 29 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 30 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |