Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 2 | She wanted to know — as I suspect you do — what my relationship had been with her late sister . |
| 3 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 4 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 5 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 6 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 7 | Her heart had been on her sleeve when Mandy had opened that door , and she felt utterly and abjectly humiliated . |
| 8 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 9 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 10 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 11 | So far her work had been in the surgery . |
| 12 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 13 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 14 | Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death . |
| 15 | But his wife , who 's the Mayor of Cirencester , said her husband had been under a lot of pressure recently . |
| 16 | While such world-famous names as BSA and Triumph were modestly adjusting and ‘ tarting up ’ models which in their day had been in front , the Japanese and particularly Honda looked at the situation through new eyes . |
| 17 | It was empty , as empty as her head had been in Seville when she had allowed herself to fall in love so easily . |
| 18 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 19 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 20 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 21 | As she grew up , her father had been of no account to her . |
| 22 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |
| 23 | People were cruel , like her father had been before the divorce , like Miss Shaw and Miss Rist were to Miss Malabedeely . |
| 24 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
| 25 | The council economic development convener , George Hood , said yesterday that its commitment had been on the basis of the original development , which had never materialised . |
| 26 | She had tried to curb it , but her tongue had been like acid . |
| 27 | Well then her mother died last Feb. with some awful cancer and her daughter had been beside her when she died and probably learnt then about the secret which must have burdened her poor mother 's life for so many years . |
| 28 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 29 | That stopped Jessamy saying anything for quite some time , because it was a frighteningly accurate description of how her life had been since their break-up . |
| 30 | It was hard to remember what her life had been like before Leo came , but , whatever it had been , it had to have been more peaceful than this . |