Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Harvey Goldsmith M.D. , was educated at Bedford Grammar School , after which he went to Cambridge and then St. George 's Hospital , where he had been house surgeon and house physician . |
| 2 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 3 | And the two microscopic methods that we discussed were patch clamp and planarlipid bilayers . |
| 4 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 5 | A number of the men absconded during the week , returning again in the evening when they said that they had been Christmas boxing . |
| 6 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |
| 7 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 8 | No matter that it had been police business , and that someone had to do it , he had personally selected Phyllis Henley yesterday . |
| 9 | My sleep/wake clock had bust a spring and I was worried about the fact that it had been Billy Tuckett who had dropped through the skylight . |
| 10 | Whether the consideration or the price that he paid was 1s. 6d. only or 1s. 6d. and three wrappers is a matter not for him but for your Lordships to determine … … . |
| 11 | It looked like she 'd been Christmas shopping . |
| 12 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 13 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 14 | Whereas if it had been standing room , we really would have been standing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd have been more excited if it had been Shirley Bassey , ’ Miss Horrocks , 28 , tells me . |
| 16 | If it had been Jamie Baird who was waiting for her in the drawing-room , would she have been so angry ? |
| 17 | Try to imagine , if you will , the ferocity of the reaction in the West if it had been Saddam Hussein who had poured napalm down on Kurdish villages three weeks ago ! |
| 18 | But she had been Vanessa Vail and Dr Dismembrio and the Sewer Thing too . |
| 19 | But it had been Mrs McBride who had started as she meant to go on . |
| 20 | McGee had summoned the Dean , but it had been Lord Cumbermound who had led the party down the back stairs . |
| 21 | In fact , she reminded herself , since they had been children Mandy had always had a knack for getting her sombre cousin , normally something of a goody-two-shoes , into a great deal of trouble . |
| 22 | Mr Tholen is a governor and trustee of Yarm School and says : ‘ The one thing the area was lacking when I came was day education for boys . |
| 23 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
| 24 | A GROUP of Japanese customers were given the red carpet treatment when they visited 's Buckie maltings in March . |