Example sentences of "had been [noun] [noun prp] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been Gerry Troy 's first recruit . |
| 2 | But a former official who had been Lady Thatcher 's senior advisor , warned of the dangers of America turning aside from Europe . |
| 3 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 4 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
| 5 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 6 | His formative influence as a boy had been John Cassell 's Popular Educator , first published in 1852 . |
| 7 | Brooke Hayward was the daughter of actress Margaret Sullivan , who had been Henry Fonda 's first wife , and producer Leland Hayward . |
| 8 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |