Example sentences of "had been [prep] [art] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 2 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 3 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 4 | He later realized that , as a child , Michael Ingram had been in The Little Beggars , a radio play that was his and Caryl Brahms 's first script to be performed , starring Alec McCowen , with David Hemmings as the child lead . |
| 5 | He had been in the Little Chef restaurant in Bramley , near Rotherham , south Yorkshire , on Wednesday night , when a man suddenly pulled out a double- barrelled shotgun . |