Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors . |
| 2 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 3 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 4 | Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all . |
| 5 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 6 | I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 7 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 8 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 9 | Ye had been appointed Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference ( the government 's largely ceremonial opinion-gathering forum ) in April [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 10 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 11 | Mabel was in the habit of throwing missiles at the Bargees and lightermen in her earlier years and one day she had been aiming coke at a local lighterman , Ben Johnson . |
| 12 | For so many years , she had been tied morning , noon and night to Jennie . |
| 13 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 14 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 15 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 16 | She had been almost unnaturally brave for so long , and now it was as though she had been given licence to cry over everything . |
| 17 | When Salomea tried to find another job , she was turned down because she had been given notice from her previous employment . |
| 18 | Lilian Ormerod , 63 , of Stonedale Crescent , Norris Green , Liverpool , had been in Broadgreen Hospital 's cardio-thoracic centre , in which she had been given blood transfusions and other treatment for heart disease . |
| 19 | She had been amassing clothing coupons for the last six months and was determined that Constance would have a magnificent dress from one of the London stores . |
| 20 | She had been undergoing treatment for over six months now . |
| 21 | She had been spitting blood after a bad bout of coughing , but one look at the sputum told me it was clean blood . |
| 22 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 23 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 24 | Jobless Mohammed Aylaus , of Surbiton , Surrey , nabbed after The People handed evidence to police , threatened to shoot a prostitute and her children when he discovered she had been witholding money from him , Reading Crown Court was told . |
| 25 | She had been granted absolution of her sins , but had died protesting her innocence to the last . |
| 26 | Today , however , for the first time since the period of mourning had ended , she had been granted permission to call upon the young prince — to stay a week and celebrate his birthday . |
| 27 | All morning she had been watching low-slung , sharp-nosed cars complete several circuits , then draw into the pits to be set upon by swarms of mechanics and subjected to intensive fine-tuning . |
| 28 | She had been watching television , another of those comedies where the audience laughs immoderately at thin jokes . |
| 29 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 30 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |