Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those qualities owed little to the opportunities provided by formal schooling or family background : the Pooles had been tanners in the Stowey area since at least the early eighteenth century , and Tom Poole 's father , the eldest of four gifted brothers , ran a large and thriving tanning business from his Castle Street home . |
| 2 | From this it may be judged that the Chauncys had been friends of the Blencowe family , and that a reference from Susanna Jennens carried weight with them . |
| 3 | The first was that , since the eleventh century , the kings of England had been lords of much of north-western France , an area extending from Normandy ( in the time of William the Conqueror ) through Maine , Anjou , Touraine , and Poitou to the duchy of Aquitaine which , a century later , Henry II had come to control through his marriage to the duchess , Eleanor , previously the wife of Louis VII of France . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Crichton had been Rovers ’ hero , but he suddenly turned villain when he pulled down Hignett as he streaked clear five minutes from time . |
| 6 | Stephen had been friends with her then . |
| 7 | If the pursuers of Robert the Bruce had been women , they 'd have known that cobwebs come overnight . |
| 8 | Ukraine and Byelarus had been members since 1945 , the three Baltic states joined in September 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] , Russia assumed the Soviet Union 's seat in December [ see p. 38744 ] , and the eight joining on March 2 were Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . |
| 9 | He was born in London in 1592 , fifth child of a prosperous East Indian merchant at whose house Hawkins , Drake and Raleigh had been visitors . |
| 10 | In the years between the wars G. K. Chesterton and Evelyn Waugh had been converts to Rome . |
| 11 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 12 | He justified everything the malais did because FAKOUM had been terrorists . |
| 13 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 14 | Like so many other newspaper owners , the Cadburys had been businessmen first and press magnates later — through involvement with party politics . |
| 15 | ‘ It is as if Woburn and Whipsnade had been trans ported to a fantasy island , ’ said a British ex-pat . |
| 16 | A Jewish woman Sarah had been friends with , before the war , used to say to her , ‘ When your children are young they tread on your feet . |
| 17 | It was only sexual jealousy that he felt , after all , because he had convinced himself that she and Florian had been lovers and probably would be again when this was over . |
| 18 | Suzy Levine and Seth had been lovers when he was writing Homeboy , best friends ever since . |
| 19 | It 's already heard that he and Greg Price had been friends . |
| 20 | A long time in the past the Yek had been nomads , and even though the principal cities of the Khanate were constructed from stone , the interior decoration of many of the principal houses owed its origins to the heritage of the tent . |
| 21 | The Skerritts had been stewards of Carewscourt for generations . |
| 22 | Where Modernists like Pound and Eliot had been intruders into island life , the new school of Christian apologists , in every sense that matters , were British bred even when they were not British born . |
| 23 | Couple this with the fact that Leeds had been champions the season before , the decline in away fortunes was even more mysterious and worrying . |
| 24 | The Davises had originally come from Grenada and the Carlsons had got to know them because their eldest child and Daryl had been friends at school . |