Example sentences of "[Wh det] had been [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had always wanted to see Harar , which had been Burton 's objective in 1855 . |
| 2 | Pauca sed matura ’ , ( few but ripe ) , which had been Gauss 's motto , became Smith 's also . |
| 3 | Lorton was in the room which had been Arabella 's studio . |
| 4 | Browne has noted that the early drafts he received , together with a synopsis of the action , already suggested the shape of the complete play — quite unlike the false starts and extensive rewriting which had been Eliot 's procedure in his earlier work ; Browne explained this in terms of his " greater self-confidence as a playwright " . |
| 5 | He took the car which had been Grégoire 's favourite and also , by chance , Isobel 's . |
| 6 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 7 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |