Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb past] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth was in love with the island , all of it , and Fernando had been the perfect , loving guide and everything was looking so good … but now this wretched ankle business had made her feel utterly miserable and vulnerable . |
| 2 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 3 | The main point Lane and Roberts stressed was the dynamism of the strike itself . |
| 4 | Around the time of the bombing , Megrahi had been security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines and Fhimah had been the airline 's station officer in Malta . |
| 5 | Letelier and Moffit had been the victims of a car bomb in Washington , but Chile 's Supreme Court had twice refused requests from the US government for the extradition of Contreras and Espinoza , and military courts had repeatedly refused to re-open proceedings against them . |
| 6 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 7 | At school she and Adam had been the different ones , the Demdykes — the ones with a dead mother and a crazy father . |
| 8 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 9 | Mum , Frankie and Liza had been the first to go , before Dad saw them . |