Example sentences of "had be [noun] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 2 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 3 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 4 | ( Missolonghi , on the mainland opposite , had been Lord Byron 's pied-á-terre , where he died in 1824 , with whom Leonard shared much , romantically and in the fuller Romantic sense . ) |
| 5 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 6 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 7 | The dramatic feature of the day had been Manuel Caballeros 's climb from 5th to equal 1st place . |
| 8 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 9 | They were de Maizière , Sabine Bergmann-Pohl , erstwhile ( CDU ) president of the Volkskammer and acting East German head of state , Günther Krause , also of the CDU , who had been de Maizière 's state secretary and a key negotiator of the terms of unification , Rainer Ortleb , vice-president of the unified FDP , and Hansjoachim Walther of the DSU . |
| 10 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 11 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |
| 12 | And , since then , there had been Mr Marr 's disappearance and my Dad 's own , frightening version of the Second Coming . |
| 13 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 14 | Lizzie Stroud had been Great-Aunt Alicia 's maid for as long as Sara could remember . |