Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 32 | Pat and Sheila had been busy , too . |
| 33 | She and Sheila had been very close at school up to the Fifth Form . |
| 34 | Both Anwar and Abdullah had been re-elected as UMNO vice-presidents at the 1990 general assembly [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 35 | Although the Magharians were arrested , al-Kassar and Haser had been under protective surveillance the whole time and were both spirited away before the trap closed . |
| 36 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 37 | Ruth was in love with the island , all of it , and Fernando had been the perfect , loving guide and everything was looking so good … but now this wretched ankle business had made her feel utterly miserable and vulnerable . |
| 38 | Kryuchkov had been KGB chairman since October 1988 [ see p. 36256 ] and Yazov had been Defence Minister since 1987 . |
| 39 | I wanted my mum or Ian , but my mum was at home and Ian had been told to go into the waiting room . |
| 40 | Everyone questioned by the police ( and Julia and Ian had been questioned twice ) knew the registration of Gray 's car . |
| 41 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |
| 42 | He had ever favoured Em — there were no two ways about it — and Em had been quite wrong to post herself to Norfolk in the first place . |
| 43 | The laboratory of Davy and Faraday had been like a large kitchen of the early nineteenth century . |
| 44 | Ana and Mitch had been intrigued , especially at dinner when the count had firmly called Maggie by her name . |
| 45 | The rivalry between Fabius and Rocard had been a major component of the party 's internal problems . |
| 46 | The transfer arrangements for Holly and Demyonov had been basically a Foreign and Commonwealth matter , and rightly so . |
| 47 | Tim and Sophie had been due to fly out to meet Julie and Elizabeth within a few days . |
| 48 | She was godmother to Julie 's 23-month-old daughter Sophie and Mr Godwin and Sophie had been due to fly out to join the group on Friday . |
| 49 | He told me that you and Sophie had been there ; he also told me that Marianne had disappeared . |
| 50 | All were CPSU members and Yazov , Yanayev and Kryuchkov had been politburo members , though after the reorganization of the party in July 1990 [ see p. 37614-17 ] , following the March abolition of its constitutional monopoly on power [ see p. 37299 ] , government ministers could no longer be on the party 's ruling bodies . |
| 51 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A was later to claim that Kent , Sussex , Essex and Surrey had been wrongfully forced away from the kindred of Ecgberht , son of Ealhmund , king of the West Saxons ( AS C A , s.a. 823 ) . |
| 52 | No matter what he and Bernice had been through , she knew in her heart of hearts that his guilt over what he had done to Ace on Heaven — and before — was a weakness : a button which would always work to throw him off balance when pressed . |
| 53 | Charles and Ann had been out several times together , there had been no aggression , and they were being more affectionate . |
| 54 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |
| 55 | A joint communiqué issued on May 19 said that the talks between Jiang and Gorbachev had been held in a " friendly , frank and businesslike atmosphere " and had covered " the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations " . |
| 56 | For the first time she regretted being an identical twin ; none of this would have happened if she and Dana had been ordinary sisters , but then you might never have met Roman Wyatt , her subconscious whispered . |
| 57 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 58 | Darwin and Spencer had been wrong to argue that women were in a state of arrested development . |
| 59 | No further such attacks on Armenian territory were reported for the rest of May , but on May 11 it was reported by Armenian officials that Getashen and Martunashen had been razed , and their populations of several thousand people deported . |
| 60 | A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name . |