Example sentences of "[noun] had been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 2 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 3 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 4 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 5 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 6 | The return journey through the town had been uphill most of the way ; her legs were trembling and her breath was coming in short , uneven gasps as the castle gates came into view , but she would not protest . |
| 7 | The excitement of Cynthia 's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse . |
| 8 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 9 | Or else his handicap had been rather less than she had reckoned . |
| 10 | The shock had been too much for her precarious hold on sanity and she had been removed to Rainhill Asylum in a strait jacket . |
| 11 | He had been abroad , and things had been too much for his younger brother , he having been deserted by his partners . |
| 12 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 13 | The overtones of a heavy relationship had been everywhere that night at Ib 's Club . |
| 14 | Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became ; Gustave supplanted him . |
| 15 | The following day Cardinal Dopfner claimed that the commission responsible for producing the schema had been too much under the influence of the Lateran University — then at odds with the Jesuits , and that the commission had refused to collaborate with the Secretariat for Promoting Unity . |
| 16 | Kuttner Dowd had been here several times , though never when the Society was assembled , as it was tonight . |
| 17 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 18 | But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ? |
| 19 | The journey had been too much for her , he thought apprehensively , but when she spoke it was in a cheerful raised voice . |
| 20 | She felt that her success had been very much due to the ‘ enterprise society ’ . |
| 21 | A tremendous amount of care and ardour has gone into the beginning and then the story tails off , almost as if that initial effort had been too much . |
| 22 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 23 | Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm . |
| 24 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 25 | He probably expected to find that the problem had been too much for her . |
| 26 | He was an opportunist , who took advantage of the chances fate laid out for him , and this last weekend had been just such an example . |
| 27 | An empty stomach and the pain of her ankle had been too much for her . |
| 28 | Louise Dunstaple , who had once been so fair , now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets ; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour … the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it . |
| 29 | Ellen and I both assumed that Sweetman 's interest in Wavebreaker had been merely that of a prospective charterer who wanted to reconnoitre the boat 's amenities . |
| 30 | So far , Melissa had been only half listening . |