Example sentences of "had [been] [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country . |
| 2 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 3 | The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch . |
| 4 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 5 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |