Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [been] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 2 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 3 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 4 | She had n't been able to stomach a great deal at breakfast , not after everything that had happened ; now she was starving . |
| 5 | She had lost her fear long ago but she had not been close to a man like this for over two years . |
| 6 | To lose her was more than Paul himself could contemplate ; and surely she had not been indifferent to him . |
| 7 | Guilt rose in Dinah ; she had never returned Mrs Gracie 's money ; she had not been able to . |
| 8 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 9 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 10 | Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ? |
| 11 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 12 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 13 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 14 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 15 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 16 | He asked them to adopt a more professional approach , to harden their attitude and not capitulate when things became tough , as they had sometimes been prone to . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 18 | In 1976 , in response to a White Paper on devolution to Scotland and Wales , the CNAA commented that it had always been sensitive to the specific conditions and needs of Scotland , and that it might be appropriate for the CNAA to set up a Scottish Committee . |
| 19 | He had even been able to purloin half an hour of Basil 's time . |
| 20 | He had not been able to in Edinburgh , but now seemed the ideal time . |
| 21 | He was aware of this and in principle disliked it , attempting when he first set up in private practice , to resist it , but he had not been able to . |
| 22 | He sat back , studying the two men for a time , unhappy that he had not been privy to their conversations before and after this important meeting . |
| 23 | If he had n't been able to , it does n't bear thinking about . ’ |
| 24 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 25 | If , of course , he had ever been nearer to Longner , that night , than this disastrous place . |
| 26 | Harvey wondered whether he had ever been able to , even in the beginning . |
| 27 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 28 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 29 | He had always been close to her . |
| 30 | Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give . |