Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I had been right about that . |
| 2 | So she had been right about his mood ! |
| 3 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 4 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had been surprised to be greeted by an adult who did n't either admonish or cross-examine him . |
| 6 | So he had been churlish to Carol after all . |
| 7 | When her husband and daughter returned home they had been distressed at not finding Margaret . |
| 8 | Perhaps also she had been afraid of meeting Matthew . |
| 9 | Formerly he had been prone to pessimism , full of gloomy prognoses about over-population and wars , which would prevent mankind from ever fulfilling its dream of colonising other planets . |
| 10 | For a few yards now she had been aware of a car cruising behind her . |
| 11 | Six years ago she had been tongue-tied in his presence , and terrified by the strength of her reaction to him , her fear manifesting itself physically , stopping the breath in her throat , tensing her muscles and making her nerves leap every time he moved or spoke to anyone , and the rare occasions on which his glance had strayed idly in her direction , it had actually hurt her . |
| 12 | Latterly he had been involved in eel fishing and had been seeking a place to keep his eels alive and fresh . |
| 13 | There I had been present at the celebrations marking the Golden Jubilee of St Joseph 's College , Sasse , ( pronounced Sassay ) , where I used to teach . |
| 14 | Since then they had been awkward in each other 's company and everything seemed to have gone wrong . |
| 15 | But then he had been wrong about his eldest son . |
| 16 | For whether or no she had been instrumental in the making of that despicable will , it was her presence here that had caused it to be made . |
| 17 | Again he had been shocked to the heart , could not speak , sat struggling to order his thoughts . |
| 18 | Recently he had been intrigued by a paper proposing the development of an atomic weapon designed to kill people through massive exposure to radioactive fallout , but with a limited blast capability , thereby keeping buildings relatively intact — the Neutron Bomb . |