Example sentences of "[noun] had been [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first stab at an Open Championship was at St Andrews in 1957 with Laurie Ayton , whose uncle David had been Tip 's golf teacher . |
| 2 | The Confederate flag had been Ellen 's idea , to be unfurled whenever we had charterers from the deep South , and this week 's guests were three married couples from Georgia . |
| 3 | Kilfedder had been Paisley 's choice for Speaker of the Assembly . |
| 4 | The deceased had been Daddy 's girl , then — although it was usually the dads , where a daughter was in question , who fought against the realization of the truth . |
| 5 | The memorable part of the meeting had been Lowell 's eagerness to be with her . |
| 6 | The lino had been Mary 's idea Just as well . |
| 7 | And last Sunday had been Clare 's birthday , and Clare 's only day off that week . |
| 8 | The main beneficiary had been Grey 's brother Dorset , whose heir had been married to Anne , the daughter of the dowager duchess of Exeter by her second husband . |
| 9 | The main beneficiary had been Grey 's brother Dorset , whose heir had been married to Anne , the daughter of the dowager duchess of Exeter by her second husband . |
| 10 | Ruth 's area had been Emma 's idea also . |
| 11 | The game had been James 's idea . |
| 12 | The only witnesses had been Sarah 's stepmother , and an ecclesiastic colleague who envied him his good fortune . |
| 13 | Cook had been Daine 's way of welcoming her , she thought . |
| 14 | Camilla had been Charles 's girlfriend during his bachelor days and in Diana 's mind his continued friendship with Camilla presented a grave threat to her own chance of happiness with the Prince of Wales . |
| 15 | One of the attractions of the first book had been Minton 's delight in the shape of things — fish , bowls , tureens , vegetables , fruit , octopus , squid and elaborate sweets . |
| 16 | The potato had been Ireland 's ruin . |
| 17 | Freddie Mills had been Michael 's boyhood hero . |
| 18 | How often , in my past life , I had claimed that one of the great benefits the nineteenth century had conferred on the West had been science 's liberation of thought and feeling from organized religion . |
| 19 | Salamanca had been Franco 's headquarters in 1937 . |
| 20 | The play had been Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet . |
| 21 | The only positive thing that had come out of the conversation had been Nicole 's offer of some aspirin . |
| 22 | Sarah Thomas had been Philpott 's secretary for the last five years . |
| 23 | Couville had been Corbett 's master and mentor when Hugh first became a clerk and , despite the gap in years and experience , they had become and remained firm friends . |
| 24 | Collective decision making , the sharing of responsibility , and solidarity in a common task had been Citrine 's way of life in the Labour movement ; and the new organisation should , he felt , be formed in that image . |
| 25 | The evening class had been Amanda 's way of escaping her boring husband for a few hours . |
| 26 | Waldron had been Neath 's manager ( in succession to Thomas ) and coach , and had seen his players roll over everyone else in Wales and based his international selection on that . |