Example sentences of "had [been] [num] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 2 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
| 3 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
| 4 | It had been one of those days . |
| 5 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |
| 6 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 7 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
| 8 | Bridget had been one of those teenagers who work all through their school holidays in restaurants or in shops or cleaning houses and she always had cash . |
| 9 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
| 10 | Norton 's Coin , who had been 200–1 with some bookmakers that morning , started at 100–1 having opened in the course betting at 66–1 . |