Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 2 | I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer . |
| 3 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 4 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 5 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 6 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
| 7 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 8 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 9 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 10 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 11 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 12 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 13 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 14 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 15 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
| 16 | All I had was in that crate , its death |
| 17 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 18 | Labelled ‘ bankrupt ’ the whole family which had been at one with their neighbours found themselves set apart . |
| 19 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |
| 20 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 21 | In 1978 I attended the Welsh ploughing championships , held on rich alluvial land in the Wye Valley which had been in continuous cereal production for several years . |
| 22 | In a general election held on Sept. 3 , 1988 [ see pp. 36352-53 ] , the People 's Action Party ( PAP — which had been in continuous majority since 1959 ) won all but one of the 81 elective seat . |
| 23 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 24 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 25 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 26 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 27 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 28 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 29 | She had been with fitzAlan and — |
| 30 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |