Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 2 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 3 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 4 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 5 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 6 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 7 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 8 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 9 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 10 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 11 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 12 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 13 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 14 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 15 | In those days of waiting , she had been spared any dread of Robert 's approaching her . |
| 16 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 17 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 18 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 19 | They had been seated each side of the blazing fire in the drawing-room , but now Martin had sprung to his feet , his voice raised as he repeated , ‘ Done for me ! |
| 20 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 21 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 22 | The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures . |
| 23 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 24 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 25 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 26 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 27 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 28 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 29 | However , the spokesman said : ‘ It now looks as though they had been fighting each other and nobody else was involved . ’ |
| 30 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |