Example sentences of "had [adv] been [adj] to [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 2 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 3 | To lose her was more than Paul himself could contemplate ; and surely she had not been indifferent to him . |
| 4 | And really , he said , the Iran and contra operations had not been central to his life . |
| 5 | The compilers of the whole narrative , working at the time of the exile in Babylonia , were convinced that the catastrophe had overtaken their people because they and their kings had not been faithful to their God . |
| 6 | He sat back , studying the two men for a time , unhappy that he had not been privy to their conversations before and after this important meeting . |
| 7 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 8 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 9 | To lie in bed wakeful had always been intolerable to him . |
| 10 | He did n't know how to cope with someone who was nice to him all the time because all the other people that he knew best ( including his parents ) had always been unkind to him . |
| 11 | Fleur Adams had spoilt Dana in every way she could , to the exclusion of Claudia , who had always been closer to her father . |
| 12 | He had always been close to her . |
| 13 | But Jane had always been close to her mother and , almost inevitably , there came an evening when Mrs Connachan inadvertently prised open the floodgates . |
| 14 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 15 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 16 | A country that had once been central to itself was on the periphery : it needed to become central again . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ Oh , I see , ’ as if it had n't been obvious to her that the photograph was old . |
| 18 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 19 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 20 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 21 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 22 | Comfort had never been important to him . |