Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 2 | Only now did I realize that I loved this man to whose power I had been subject all my life . |
| 3 | The hot date — the central groove I had been wire brushing — swooned at the sight of them . |
| 4 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 5 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 6 | And she had been fool enough to let him draw her in to it . |
| 7 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 8 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 9 | She had come all the way from Wales , where she had been Second in the Bwbachod Six of her Brownie Guide Pack . |
| 10 | Highly regarded by Elizabeth Woodville , she had been lady of the bedchamber until her retirement and was one of the queen-dowager 's closest friends . |
| 11 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |
| 12 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 13 | Out on the fringes of the Vartaq Veil , looking for traces of her lost father , she had been part of a team excavating a Dyson sphere constructed around a white dwarf star . |
| 14 | Before he 'd interfered in her life she had been part of a team , doing a job that she enjoyed well . |
| 15 | A 15-year-old Darlington girl admitted yesterday that she had been part of a gang which broke into the town 's Salvation Army Hostel . |
| 16 | She had been stone deaf , as well . |
| 17 | She had been Form Mistress of Junior C from 1950 to 1962 and taught with patience , sympathy , and understanding , introducing many boys not only to drama ( as was to be expected ) but also to cricket and football . |
| 18 | And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations . |
| 19 | And Laura — if she had been earth and water as she shaped her pots , she was now , like Cleopatra , all fire and air . |
| 20 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 21 | Before retiring in 1951 , she had been director of the Army 's European relief project , arranging the return to Germany of refugees from Russia and elsewhere after the huge migrations at the end of the war in Europe , and was later secretary of the war graves ' department . |
| 22 | She had been director of market planning at Adobe Systems Inc . |
| 23 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |
| 24 | But whether she had been right or wrong , Hugo had been allowed off the hook . |
| 25 | On May 18 the Supreme Soviet in Azerbaijan elected Ayaz Niyaz ogly Mutalibov , the Azerbaijan Communist Party first secretary , to the post of President of the Republic , and Elmira Kafarova to the separate post of Chair of the Supreme Soviet ( previously she had been Chair of the Supreme Soviet Presidium ) . |
| 26 | The chief inspector disliked his arrogant manner , his jocularity at her expense , particularly when the only weapon she had was bluff and she was vulnerable for having pressed on with the case against Spittals ' opposition . |
| 27 | We had been bottom of the league in the 1960s and 1970s , but our GDP , business investment and manufacturing productivity grew faster during the 1980s than in Germany , France or many other countries . |
| 28 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 29 | We had dinner hours ago , and any way how could you get ill when all we had is stuff we 've always had ? |
| 30 | All the power we had is love , now |