Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 2 | The king 's original intention , goaded by the Pope 's refusal to grant him a divorce , had been to effect a greater lay control of an uncertain church . |
| 3 | In later life , Jaq understood that this particular Black Ship had been carrying a higher percentage of individualists hailing from less longstandingly pious worlds , than most such shipments . |
| 4 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 5 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |