Example sentences of "had [be] [noun] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had been Carole 's dream to come and work with us , but sadly that dream was smashed . ’ |
| 2 | The memorable part of the meeting had been Lowell 's eagerness to be with her . |
| 3 | I had always wanted to see Harar , which had been Burton 's objective in 1855 . |
| 4 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 5 | Fergus should have been standing here , thought Taliesin , and there was a pain and an aching void at the knowledge , for this had been Fergus 's quest and his covenant . |
| 6 | Lorton was in the room which had been Arabella 's studio . |
| 7 | It had been Dorothy 's territory , as indeed had all of the house , except for areas of communal use . |
| 8 | One of the attractions of the first book had been Minton 's delight in the shape of things — fish , bowls , tureens , vegetables , fruit , octopus , squid and elaborate sweets . |
| 9 | Peggy did not go up to apologise to her great-grandmother ; she was too busy doing the work that had been Rosie 's routine . |
| 10 | And where had been Lionan 's fighting men , the retainers who were bound to protect Suardal as the Hearthwares were ? |
| 11 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |
| 12 | The social provision that had been Britain 's thank-offering to an expectant postwar world after 1945 had left the problem of poverty , in some respects , remarkably and alarmingly unaffected . |
| 13 | This was — or , at least , had been Forester 's field . |
| 14 | This time it had been Byford 's patrol , not the police or the Black and Tans . |
| 15 | He had been Felix 's friend since 1938 . |
| 16 | So successful had been Winterbottom 's immersion in unyielding All Black ways that even though the 1983 Lions , of which he was a member , failed to win any of the tests , he was named as one of New Zealand rugby 's five players of the year . |
| 17 | She had been Carolyn 's protector for so long . |
| 18 | The only positive thing that had come out of the conversation had been Nicole 's offer of some aspirin . |
| 19 | This had been Christine 's place , once . |
| 20 | The evening class had been Amanda 's way of escaping her boring husband for a few hours . |
| 21 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 22 | According to some reports Barak , who had been Shomron 's deputy for four years , had planned and commanded those carrying out the assassination of Abu Jihad , the PLO " number two " , in Tunis in 1988 [ see p. 36436 ] . |
| 23 | Rosemary , a year older than Leith , had been Sebastian 's school classmate . |
| 24 | Still , there had been Maggie 's arena ( the tiny sun was like some red-gel spotlight blazing just to highlight her ) . |
| 25 | It had been Arthur 's brainwave in the night ; they must know Clare 's second name , and address . |
| 26 | His first stab at an Open Championship was at St Andrews in 1957 with Laurie Ayton , whose uncle David had been Tip 's golf teacher . |
| 27 | Then there had been Paul 's breakdown , and Nathan Holland had been invaluable there also ; she would have run mad without him . |
| 28 | Armed with their texts of the Lion 's own travel guide to the town , Our English Watering Place , The Lionisers were arrayed in their seaside appeared , no less excited at the beginning of their week 's holiday than had been Auguste 's pupils . |
| 29 | The only witnesses had been Sarah 's stepmother , and an ecclesiastic colleague who envied him his good fortune . |
| 30 | Pauca sed matura ’ , ( few but ripe ) , which had been Gauss 's motto , became Smith 's also . |