Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some districts which had been forest in 1300 were however excluded in 1641 . |
| 4 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 5 | She felt certain that with Bella there had been passion . |
| 6 | When Dalin and Rust were writing they pointed to a variety of stimuli for change : in the United States it had been competition with the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Klestil , 59 , a career diplomat who had been ambassador to the USA and permanent representative at the UN , would take over the presidency from Kurt Waldheim for a six-year term beginning on July 8 . |
| 8 | In 1934 , Henry Wash resigned as District Chairman as a new appointment took him to Kent and was succeeded by Harold Shearman who had been vice-chairman of the District since 1931 . |
| 9 | The young Wanless , an only child who had been captain of the football team and head boy at his primary school , won a scholarship to Newcastle Royal Grammar School . |
| 10 | In 1968 , to restore public confidence in the so-called finance houses , banks and other money-lending agencies , a Committee of Enquiry was appointed under the chairmanship of Lord Crowther who had been Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 11 | Frank McManus who had been MP at Westminster for Fermanagh and South Tyrone until February , 1974 had been selected earlier as a Unity candidate for the Convention elections but after a party meeting just before the close of nominations withdrew his name . |
| 12 | In England there had been talk of reunion since the 1830s and some reunions had taken place . |
| 13 | In Russia he had been expert with the knout , no less than the sword . |
| 14 | She thought now , she might be better to go and sit with Nan-Nan who had been Mama 's nurse but who in spite of that was not so very old . |
| 15 | David Checketts was his first private secretary , a former squadron leader in the RAF who had been equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh , and was the perfect person to help the Prince make the transition from the armed services into a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 16 | The chief inspector disliked his arrogant manner , his jocularity at her expense , particularly when the only weapon she had was bluff and she was vulnerable for having pressed on with the case against Spittals ' opposition . |
| 17 | Even before the crisis there had been talk of fielding a Popular Front candidate in Oxford . |
| 18 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 19 | In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion . |
| 20 | He did much hospital work : for several years up to his retirement he had been Chairman of the South West Regional Hospital Management Board and was an active hospital visitor . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | Mba , hitherto governor of the regional bank , the Banque des états de l'Afrique centrale ( BEAC ) , replaced Léon Mebiame who had been head of government since 1981 . |
| 23 | The first er things we had was arm bands which had , had L D V on , that was the first uni type of anything we had for recognition was them . |
| 24 | Last night there had been Christmas bells ringing all over London . |
| 25 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 26 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 27 | For at least two minutes there had been silence , and a hope grew in her . |
| 28 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 29 | He was a Fellow of New College from 1930 to 1937 , when the Warden was H. A. L. Fisher who had been President of the Board of Education under Lloyd George during and after the First World War ( and who deserves a book to himself ) . |
| 30 | Stefan , a thin , grey-faced , middle-aged man with stomach ulcers who had been production manager since the Hochhauser Season had begun , sat down at the table , looked at the balance sheet and the final sentence at the bottom and took a bottle of tablets from his pocket . |