Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] had [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I thought and what I believed had been moving further and further apart in the weeks since my father had died . |
| 2 | The other glass , which I guessed had been the constable 's , he put in the sink . |
| 3 | I loved my father , and when he died I felt something I loved had been taken away from me . |
| 4 | The difficulty a low Christology poses for feminists was brought home to me some years ago in attending a eucharistic liturgy , which I believe had been written by Carter Heyward , whose work I shall shortly mention . |
| 5 | The second major issue which I believe had been used against the new settlement as a an appropriate Greater York area , is that it 's inconsistent with erm current recent central government planning advice , and basically the argument is that the proposals for the new settlement are contrary to er planning policy guidance notes three and twelve , and draft er P P G thirteen , if I can deal with P P G thirteen first of all , and the observation of Mr Curtis that the new settlement is a last resort , erm now I could find no reference to that at all erm in P P G three , or even a sentiment that at planning policy er that a new settlement should be regarded erm as a policy of last resort . |
| 6 | On my return from Norway I found that the sports hall where I worked had been burnt down . |
| 7 | For those first two years I was able to enjoy behaving childishly — a pleasure which I felt had been denied to me — and being relatively free from responsibility . |
| 8 | I clambered over the rubble where I thought it was safe to do so , and got one piece of the great white pulpit , and the last page of the Bible I knew had been used by Dr Thomas Chalmers before his mission to New Guinea . |
| 9 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 10 | I said well I thought well has been up there been up there er I thought had been up there a had been up there ? |
| 11 | That I did had been a 45 year fantasy come true . ’ |
| 12 | First the old Morris I liked had been exchanged for a Jowett Javelin . |
| 13 | Clearly outlined was the oval shape of the perimeter of what I suspected had been a professionally-built concrete pool , now filled in — for what reason I ca n't imagine . |
| 14 | Revelation came and sat in the shade of Masquerade 's bows where she plucked two chickens that I suspected had been killed in honour of my return to the island . |
| 15 | It seemed to me that the question she asked had been simmering in her for some time . |
| 16 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 17 | A vengeful Mrs Wallace Reid turned over to police all the names of those she believed had been responsible for Wally 's debauched lifestyle . |
| 18 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 19 | Jacqueline Bridger , 46 , poured a can of petrol over her head in the office of Michael Sargeant , the man she claimed had been her lover , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 20 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 21 | Nothing half so terrible had happened to her ; no one she loved had been killed or even hurt . |
| 22 | the client may not obtain the project he or she thought had been commissioned |
| 23 | Her blouse fell open and her naked breast was warmed by the hot sun and his mouth drawing her desire from deep within her , a desire she thought had been lost for no other man would have been able to free it , no other but him . |
| 24 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
| 25 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 26 | Decidedly not the one she knew had been bought only recently from Laura Ashley and which now lay abandoned on the floor beside her bed . |
| 27 | There is nothing like the thrill a week or two later of being able to get back into clothing that you thought had been discarded forever . |
| 28 | Her body felt stiff and awkward , as if the cold she felt had been physical enough to stiffen her muscles , as well as freeze her heart . |
| 29 | It was a poignant film , which she wished had been longer . |
| 30 | HARRIET Harman yesterday staked a claim for Labour as the party for women whose needs she said had been ignored under 13 years of Conservative rule . |