Example sentences of "had been [noun prp] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been Gerry Troy 's first recruit . |
| 2 | had been Hull University 's social secretary and was a successful agent representing British and international artists . |
| 3 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 4 | But a former official who had been Lady Thatcher 's senior advisor , warned of the dangers of America turning aside from Europe . |
| 5 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 6 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 7 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 8 | ( Missolonghi , on the mainland opposite , had been Lord Byron 's pied-á-terre , where he died in 1824 , with whom Leonard shared much , romantically and in the fuller Romantic sense . ) |
| 9 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 10 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
| 11 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 12 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 13 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 14 | The dramatic feature of the day had been Manuel Caballeros 's climb from 5th to equal 1st place . |
| 15 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 16 | They were de Maizière , Sabine Bergmann-Pohl , erstwhile ( CDU ) president of the Volkskammer and acting East German head of state , Günther Krause , also of the CDU , who had been de Maizière 's state secretary and a key negotiator of the terms of unification , Rainer Ortleb , vice-president of the unified FDP , and Hansjoachim Walther of the DSU . |
| 17 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 18 | His formative influence as a boy had been John Cassell 's Popular Educator , first published in 1852 . |
| 19 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 20 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |
| 21 | Brooke Hayward was the daughter of actress Margaret Sullivan , who had been Henry Fonda 's first wife , and producer Leland Hayward . |
| 22 | And , since then , there had been Mr Marr 's disappearance and my Dad 's own , frightening version of the Second Coming . |
| 23 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 24 | Lizzie Stroud had been Great-Aunt Alicia 's maid for as long as Sara could remember . |
| 25 | McLeish threw it away and methodically sorted his notes ; he was not going near a top firm of solicitors without a very careful list of questions , and his first port of call that morning was to be Huttons , who had been Angela Morgan 's solicitors . |
| 26 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |
| 27 | The battered instrument had been Paddy Byrne 's most treasured possession and he had played it like a genius when his belly was full of beer . |