Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 2 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 3 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 4 | She had been right of course . |
| 5 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 6 | The morning she had slammed out of the house and walked through the blitzed London streets to Goddy 's office she had been out of her mind ; shell-shocked , or something . |
| 7 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 8 | For a long time she had been out of control , unable to cope with the everyday demands of her new royal role . |
| 9 | At the same time the near certainty that at least one member of the household knew she had been out of her bed before dawn put her in a state of nervous watchfulness . |
| 10 | She had been out of prison for four years but was on two suspended sentences for shoplifting , and had recently been arrested for shoplifting again . |
| 11 | She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world . |
| 12 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 13 | On waking each day she had been out of temper . |
| 14 | Because the memories plaguing her were sending her quietly crazy , and it had only been a week since she had been out of his company . |
| 15 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 16 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 17 | Everything they had was out of date and food was in very short supply . |
| 18 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 19 | It had been out of the question to recognise — reluctance . |
| 20 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 21 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 22 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 23 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 24 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 25 | Like Parson , he had been out of Teheran as the Shah 's power crumbled in the summer of 1978 . |
| 26 | He was fully dressed as if he had been out of the chateau . ’ |
| 27 | What he had feared would happen was happening now , though the feeling he had was not of being in any way rejected , nor was it embarrassment . |