Example sentences of "had been [noun] [noun] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had been Vanessa Vail and Dr Dismembrio and the Sewer Thing too . |
| 2 | When Anthony Eden resigned the premiership in broken health in January 1957 , the two obvious contenders had been R.A. Butler and Harold Macmillan . |
| 3 | Since late July in cities across the country there had been work stoppages and demonstrations in protest at the lack of cigarettes , in many cases degenerating into rioting . |
| 4 | When he testified , he had already been characterized as Batman , and Superman and , most frequently , Rambo ( but ‘ a Rambo with all his clothes on ’ , as The Spectator put it ) ; he had been a composite Clint Eastwood type , part-lonesome cowboy , part Dirty Harry ; he had been James Bond and James Dean , ‘ the rebel with a cause ’ . |
| 5 | There had been book burnings and riots from Bangladesh to Bradford . |
| 6 | George Harvey Goldsmith M.D. , was educated at Bedford Grammar School , after which he went to Cambridge and then St. George 's Hospital , where he had been house surgeon and house physician . |
| 7 | And it had been while McGrath had been features editor that Peace News had carried the spread extolling Ginsberg 's London readings , and the big page feature on the Albert Hall gathering . |