Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 2 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 3 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 4 | I had been to church , but I did n't tell her . |
| 5 | ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’ |
| 6 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 7 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 8 | Well , I had been in bed and asleep earlier in the night . |
| 9 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 10 | Though I had been in Casualty longer than the three weeks Sister had talked of on my first morning , and by Cas. rules was temporarily senior to Daisy Yates , it was Daisy who was sent to join the Accident Nursing Team . |
| 11 | I had been in hospital for about two days when they told me my tumour was malignant . |
| 12 | I had been in television studios before but never with a live audience , so that was a bit different . |
| 13 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 15 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 16 | It would be true to say without exaggeration that throughout my mature life , in my quest to transform humanity , I had been in search of Mr White Face , as I thought of him . |
| 17 | I was 19-years-old and , although I had been in action bombarding the Normandy coast and seen ships lost , the thought of this new venture alarmed me . |
| 18 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 19 | The most professional approach which I had was in fact via an intermediary who was acting on behalf of an existing customer of the company who employed me and whose objective was to sound out general interest without disturbing the importance of on-going business relationships . |
| 20 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 21 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 22 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 23 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 24 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 25 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 26 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
| 27 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 28 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 29 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 30 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |