Example sentences of "her [noun pl] had [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 2 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 3 | Her parents had been in the Chelsea Art set . |
| 4 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 5 | All her fears had been of Adam dead , Adam never waking from his trance , Adam turned into an automaton . |
| 6 | And then Iris , by that non sequitur announcement of Carlos 's imminent arrival , showed that , far from listening to him , her thoughts had been on the voyage and what lay ahead . |