Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see I 'd been Oxford . |
| 2 | Gran had always been tetchy and impatient with Ben Hesketh , she remembered ; and he 'd always called her Ma , as if he 'd been Jake 's brother . |
| 3 | She was beginning to see why he 'd been Jake 's friend . |
| 4 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 5 | And another boys name was Thomas and he could n't write that cos all last year he 'd been Tom an he 'd forgotten how to write his surname they 're not dim children both of them |
| 6 | What had she really known about the young man who 'd been Eddie 's friend ? |
| 7 | Stroud , who 'd been Stokle 's common law wife , planned to claim life insurance . |
| 8 | There 'd been Stephen . |
| 9 | I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men . |
| 10 | There are still old Newfoundlanders around who chopped down their maple trees and ripped ’ O Canada ’ from their song-books on March 31 1949 , when the proud island which had been England 's oldest colony joined the Canadian confederation . |
| 11 | One of Al Bowlly 's greatest numbers , ’ he added , mentioning the name of the man who had been England 's most popular crooner until his death . |
| 12 | First there had been Dimsey Turner , and now there was the Reverend Morey . |
| 13 | I wish it had been Carole Lombard … |
| 14 | ‘ It had been Carole 's dream to come and work with us , but sadly that dream was smashed . ’ |
| 15 | Déby had been Habré 's military commander and the architect of victories over Libyan forces in the 1986-87 war [ see pp. 34914-17 ; 35876-79 ; 36256 ] . |
| 16 | Somewhere beyond , the thing that had been Farley Peters — still locked in the corridor wall — gibbered and scrabbled with monstrous hunger . |
| 17 | Down below on the staircase , the thing that had been Farley Peters was trying to crawl up the steps towards him . |
| 18 | The memorable part of the meeting had been Lowell 's eagerness to be with her . |
| 19 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 20 | I had always wanted to see Harar , which had been Burton 's objective in 1855 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had been Gerry Troy 's first recruit . |
| 23 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 24 | ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . ) |
| 25 | Another had been William Temple , Butler 's necessary ally in the passing of his Act . |
| 26 | William was born on Monday 9 April 1849 — the only one not to bear a middle Christian name , but then , of course , there had been William Titfords galore back to the 17th century , so the boy was in good company . |
| 27 | In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings . |
| 28 | Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had married one of their daughters ; another member of the family had been William IX 's most famous mistress . |
| 29 | In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings . |
| 30 | No , it had been April then . |