Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 2 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 3 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 4 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 5 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 6 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 7 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 8 | The big American computer users — such as Boeing and General Motors — which had been pioneers of intra-company networks , were also natural supporters of OSI . |
| 9 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |
| 10 | On May 11 the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the largest party at national level , won a seat in the Sabah State Assembly for the first time , defeating the candidate of the ruling United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) which had been part of the UMNO-led National Front central government coalition until just before the October 1990 general election [ see pp. 37780-81 ] . |
| 11 | During October the European free market price for 99.5 per cent pure cobalt , which had been £15 per lb ( roughly $33 000 per tonne ; £1 = $1.80 ) — or as low as $11 per lb for long term contracts direct with supplier — shot up to around $30 per lb . |
| 12 | ‘ Apart from a few pieces of glass and steel which had been gifts from my family and had sentimental value , I let her run riot among my other acquisitions . |
| 13 | Some districts which had been forest in 1300 were however excluded in 1641 . |
| 14 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |
| 15 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
| 16 | In other respects , the Declaration settled a number of issues which had been points of contention between the Crown and Parliament , and settled them in Parliament 's favour . |
| 17 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had come all the way from Wales , where she had been Second in the Bwbachod Six of her Brownie Guide Pack . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Before he 'd interfered in her life she had been part of a team , doing a job that she enjoyed well . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 26 | And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations . |
| 27 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had been director of market planning at Adobe Systems Inc . |
| 30 | 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 . |