Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had been " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |
| 32 | I love him like nothing else in my life , but Paula and I had been together when we were all planning Project Eden , before I even met Sam , and I loved her too , and somehow I just could n't stop seeing her … . ’ |
| 33 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 34 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 35 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 36 | And I had been once in a , a cruise liner to the Canary Islands and Madeira in nineteen thirty five . |
| 37 | Dermot and I had been together at Eton but then Dermot was one of the Lower boys who came when I shouted " Boy " . |
| 38 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 39 | Fielding and I had been buzzed in , cased , X-rayed and heavy-petted by two security guards in plum blazers . |
| 40 | I could not see the female but , as I was raised to their shoulders , I caught a glimpse of my happy home , that cave where Elsbeth and I had been so content . |
| 41 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 42 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 43 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 44 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 45 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 46 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 47 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 48 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 49 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 50 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 51 | Her own intense excitement had given way to a hollow feeling in her stomach and she had been quite unable to eat for several days . |
| 52 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 53 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 54 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 55 | She has just managed to scuttle out of its way as it slammed down next to her , but the tip of one of her legs had been trapped and she had been forced to sever it and leave it behind . |
| 56 | Miss Fogerty was a little afraid of Miss Watson , for though she herself had spent thirty years at Thrush Green School , she was only the assistant teacher and she had been taught to respect her betters . |
| 57 | A small crowd had gathered and she had been carried across the street and inside the nearest shop in order to get her out of the sun . |
| 58 | Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way . |
| 59 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |
| 60 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |