Example sentences of "had [adv] been [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had obviously been right about Damian Flint . |
| 2 | Beth had long been concerned about Cissie 's ‘ wanderings ’ . |
| 3 | Not having done very well at school ( not even allowed to sit the Oxbridge exams ) , she had nevertheless been diligent about her piano lessons , and was in fact quite good on the instrument . |
| 4 | The Observer had already been excited about it in its preview the weekend before . |
| 5 | Yes , yes , her mother had always been honest about her lack of initiative in that direction . |
| 6 | Dad had always been fanatical about security at night ; he even bolted the inside doors . |
| 7 | A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions . |
| 8 | He had always been sentimental about horses — too much so , according to his father . |
| 9 | So she climbed the fire escape , briskly for she had always been brisk about everything , even making love . |
| 10 | The embarrassment of the British establishment in December 1989 , caused a great deal of well-deserved Schadenfreude among those who had always been sceptical about the Ceauşescus . |
| 11 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 12 | She had ever been curious about Benedict 's background , and now more so than ever , when everything hinged on his moral claim to Merchiston Lodge . |
| 13 | She had made gallant efforts to pull herself together but had still been confused about the precise sequence of events between arriving at the church and the moment when she had pushed open the door of the Little Vestry . |
| 14 | He had probably been worrying about his vocation . |
| 15 | When Leith was not mutinying against him , she was alternately engaged — while still producing a fair output of work — in wondering if he had really been serious about taking her to Parkwood to meet Travis 's parents this weekend . |
| 16 | If those brothers in Comus had really been anxious about their sisters would they have stood around spouting poetry ? |
| 17 | She could hardly have been much of a friend of Liza because , although her daughter had never been forthcoming about her time in the ATS , she had certainly never mentioned an Eleanor Fuller . |
| 18 | Marshal Saxe had never been happy about the operation he was to command ; nor was Louis XV , who had been talked into supporting the attempt by his ministers . |