Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been into Zambia , but not very often |
| 2 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 3 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 4 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 5 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 6 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 7 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 8 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 9 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 10 | I HAD been to Lourdes before . |
| 11 | I had been to Balsall Heath Health Centre on Edward Rd. with the NCT so we went there and all the other H.C.s and asked the Health Visitors . |
| 12 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 13 | I had been to Mr Grover for a complete check-up . |
| 14 | I had been with Jamie in the pub , then with him and the girl outside , then alone when I was running , and then with Jamie and later him and his mother , then I walked home almost sober . |
| 15 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 16 | A few weeks before my talk at Wellesley College , I had been in New York at the invitation of Social Policy , a leftist magazine with a record of antipathy toward IQ testing and its social implications . |
| 17 | I had been in New York when Masquerade was stolen . |
| 18 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 19 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 20 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 21 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 22 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 23 | However , when I had been in Huntingdon a few weeks she persuaded me , against my will , to accompany her to a dance which was being held at Alconbury , one of the American air bases nearest to us . |
| 24 | The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument . |
| 25 | On April 4 Bor , which had been under SPLA control since April 1989 , fell to a government force of some 2,000 men , which was armed with heavy artillery against the SPLA 's lighter arms . |
| 26 | Once baptised in the fiery power of the Spirit which had been in Jesus , the disciples at once interpret it as the fulfilment of Joel 's prophecy about the availability of the Spirit in the last days , and proclaim the good news to the representative crowd from ‘ every nation under heaven ’ which had gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ( 2:16ff ) . |
| 27 | In fact , it barely sufficed to keep out reconnaissance sorties by the handful of French planes which had been in Verdun at the outset . |
| 28 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 29 | Sophie looked almost as surprised as she had been at Helen 's news . |
| 30 | She had been to Babylon , and come back . |