Example sentences of "had [been] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if she had been beyond the sky . |
| 2 | Only an agreed statement of his rights vis-à-vis the Christians of the Ottoman Empire would have convinced him that the game had been worth the candle . |
| 3 | SHe knew it was unlikely SHe could count on Alix 's discretion , but the need for medical backup had been worth the disclosures . |
| 4 | By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother . |
| 5 | It had been worth the risk . |
| 6 | They bought a flat in the capital , Nick attended art school for a while there , and Laura made a very close friend of a woman whose unusual shop had been opposite the Ashley 's first boutique on the Left Bank . |
| 7 | If the N1 cam had been between the point cams throughout I could have done , but NOT when the N1 cam is left outside them . |
| 8 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 9 | ‘ She had been about the Court . ’ |
| 10 | The picture ! — How eager he had been about the picture ! — and the charade ! — and an hundred other circumstances ; — how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet . |
| 11 | However , he had been into the interior once before , in the service of two Dutch explorers who , in the manner of all Dutch explorers , had died strange deaths : though not before they had communicated to civilization a mysterious message , ‘ Wallace and Darwin did not know it , but there are alternatives . ’ |
| 12 | Rain said she had been into the studio but not the flat . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 14 | After all , she and the Archdeacon had been into the house once already . |
| 15 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |
| 16 | The camp was a most as noisy as the point of work had been during the day . |
| 17 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 18 | He was obviously even more angry with her than he had been during the contretemps with Terry . |
| 19 | It was not qualitatively different on the eve of the French Revolution from what it had been during the reign of Louis XIV . |
| 20 | In the Chiswick works of London Transport , during 1947 , the very popular Regent Three ( R.T. ) double-decker bus was redesigned so as to be ‘ jig built ’ in a like manner to that which the mass-produced Halifax bombers had been during the war . |
| 21 | Perhaps " acquaintance " would be a fairer description than " friend " , but the difference was clearer in peacetime than it had been during the war . |
| 22 | The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song . |
| 23 | She had wanted to speak to Debbie after the others had left , and all the talk over lunch had been of the trip to the Tate . |
| 24 | If I had been of the view , which I am not , that it was open to the rule making authority , whether by accident or design , in any way to remove powers which the Act has given to the court , I should still have been of opinion that the judge had the powers which he clearly wished to have . |
| 25 | Later , Lucien told himself that this shadow had been of the future . |
| 26 | Compulsory ‘ liberal studies ’ was , however , not to remain a distinctive feature of CNAA degrees as they had been of the Diploma in Technology . |
| 27 | Here , in the region , there had been as much talk of Stokoe 's stars in the Wembley build up as there had been of the side Malcolm Crosby led out against Liverpool . |
| 28 | But Bicker had seen her wandering Glenbrittle , and she had been to the bothy . |
| 29 | He had been to the cemetery . |
| 30 | When we last spoke , you told me that you were reading in bed until eleven-thirty , when you went to sleep , and your last sortie from the bedroom had been to the kitchen for milk at approximately ten-forty . |