Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | For somebody that had never been in sales before you remember a lot from the course |
| 2 | There seemed to be a permanent but suppressed hostility there , cooling everything that had once been so warm . |
| 3 | He had more than three hundred books on his shelves now ; everything that had ever been written about Vangmoor , of course , its history , geology , geography , wild life ; all his old school textbooks , all the adventure stories of his boyhood . |
| 4 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 5 | The General Manager in Riyadh , in an excess of loyalty , had tried to protect Laing 's career by only insisting that every riyal be returned to the Ministry 's account , something that had now been done . |
| 6 | The adulation when it was all over was something that had hardly been seen before in England , even on momentous Ashes-winning occasions , and early in 1964 his efforts were rewarded with a knighthood , conferred by the Queen at Buckingham Palace . |
| 7 | Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there . |
| 8 | My bed , fine , but my life … that was something that had always been untouchable , and , as far as I was concerned , always would be . |
| 9 | How dared he do this to her — how dared he rob her of something that had always been her life 's blood ? |
| 10 | Fleischmann and Pons set out on a different course initially , but one that had already been charted in Europe in the 1920s and 30s . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm well aware of whom they 're for , ’ he bit out , and Ellie belatedly became rather frighteningly aware of the dangerous quality in him that had only been hinted at before . |
| 12 | " There was , " she said , a little boy in him that had never been released . |
| 13 | He could not know that Sophia was taking a keen interest in him and had even been considering him — provided he were not divorced or otherwise unsuitable-as a husband for her sister . |
| 14 | What was it for ? ’ , and within two minutes the prize-winner will be believing that she knew all about him and had indeed been specially looking forward to meeting him . |