Example sentences of "had been [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackberry was as much at a loss as he had been himself . |
| 2 | Somebody had been her , fetching me to see that I was playing truant , landed in school . |
| 3 | It was not Celeste whom Vitor had been wondering how to ditch , it had been her ! |
| 4 | She said that had been her first earliest morning . |
| 5 | He had been one himself . |
| 6 | The lower , parochial clergy seem often to have had wives and children ; but the ladies and children of the close , of whom Heloise herself had been one , become a thing of the past . |
| 7 | He was n't one of the grooms himself , though perhaps he had been one , somewhere , sometime . |
| 8 | But here 's the rub — there had been one here before ! |
| 9 | Bullock had been one up after 15 holes but Davies pulled back the deficit at the 16th and held on to finish the match all square . |
| 10 | It was argued that the King might intervene either to persuade Asquith to call an election or to refuse his assent to Home Rule until there had been one ; this was certainly within the theoretical Royal Prerogative , for the King had an undoubted right to advise his ministers and — by the Unionist argument at least — his power of veto had been necessarily restored by the removal of the powers of the Lords . |
| 11 | The Sabra and Chatila massacres in Lebanon had been one ; the scale of brutality was ungraspable . |
| 12 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
| 13 | He had naively assumed that the Concorde ticket he had seen on her desk had been one she had gone out and bought in order to join him in New York . |
| 14 | Besides , there had been one killing . |
| 15 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 16 | A good example are the ‘ golf ’ tickets from Craven Arms to Plowden , where upon making enquiries I was informed that there was no golf course , but there had been one in the years before World War One . |
| 17 | Was it true that she had been one among others who had put up bail for Wullie Robertson ? |
| 18 | The moment of doubt , if there had been one , had gone . |
| 19 | How like him to want to slay her dragons , not realising he had been one himself . |
| 20 | It had been him that had wanted to nick Mrs Wright 's helmet . |
| 21 | He had turned away and tried to avoid his eye , but it had been him , no question . |
| 22 | But Mortimer said that if it had been him he would have hit the roof . ’ |
| 23 | One of reasons for the survival of the S&C into the 1980s had been its ability to handle diverted WCML trains ; this continued despite withdrawal of Intercity services in the winter 1982–3 timetable . |
| 24 | Though the majority of youth continued outwardly to behave in a conformist manner , the growth in numerous big cities of deliberately non-conformist and sometimes actively oppositionist youth groups delighting in physical as well as verbal attacks on Hitler Youth brigades , wearing ‘ western ’ clothes , aping English mannerisms , and listening to jazz , showed that Nazism was losing ground among what had been its strongest area of support . |
| 25 | For centuries one of the most telling criticisms of Nonconformity had been its penchant towards disintegration , what Edmund Burke called ‘ the dissidence of dissent ’ . |
| 26 | The key to Israel 's success , and to a lesser extent Syria 's , had been its ability to prey on the strategic anxieties of its superpower patron . |
| 27 | The thrusting diversity of American capitalist railway operations , which had been its great strength in the nineteenth century , had become its greatest weakness in the twentieth , and not even Amtrak could entirely arrest that decline . |
| 28 | If there had been its time had passed . |
| 29 | Dalgliesh had never asked her why she had moved to Norfolk but he guessed that the mill 's main attraction had been its remoteness , its closeness to notable bird sanctuaries and the impressive view of headland , sky and sea from the top storey . |
| 30 | The only member of the former Board of Guardians to have been appointed to the committee was William Lansberry , who had been its chairman , and he was immediately put on a sub-committee to appoint a Public Assistance Officer . |