Example sentences of "[pron] had been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 2 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 3 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 4 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 5 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 6 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |
| 7 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 8 | In a general election held on Sept. 3 , 1988 [ see pp. 36352-53 ] , the People 's Action Party ( PAP — which had been in continuous majority since 1959 ) won all but one of the 81 elective seat . |
| 9 | In 1978 I attended the Welsh ploughing championships , held on rich alluvial land in the Wye Valley which had been in continuous cereal production for several years . |
| 10 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 11 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 12 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 13 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 14 | In Northern Ireland Constable Louis Robinson , an off-duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who had been on sick leave for three years , was kidnapped from a minibus at an IRA roadblock near the border at Killeen , South Armagh , on Sept. 15 . |
| 15 | It was his first encounter with Zhou , director in Hong Kong of the New China News Agency , who had been on sick leave ; it had been billed as a " get to know you " meeting , which would sidestep controversial issues . |
| 16 | At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two . |
| 17 | After victories on Saturday over Cotswold and Victoria ( Street ) , the Ely team of Stewart Seymour , Kevin King , David Bell and Greg Harlow had a quarter-final success yesterday against Victory ( Portsmouth ) and were always in control in their semi-final against Moonfleet Weymouth , who had been in sharp form earlier against Torbay , Preston ( Brighton ) and County Arts Norwich . |
| 18 | Elliott began to take things easy and Reveille Boy , who had been in hot pursuit for some time , reduced the gap . |
| 19 | A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 . |
| 20 | They then lost Gatting , who had been in better form than anyone , in the first one-day international when his nose exploded after coming into contact with a ball from Marshall that he failed to hook . |
| 21 | Al-Shazli , who had been in voluntary exile since 1978 , was to appeal [ for his return and arrest in March see p. 38840 , where his surname is erroneously given as Chazli ] . |
| 22 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 23 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
| 24 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 25 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 26 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 27 | Three years of horrifying anarchy and nine governments destroyed what there had been of Ukrainian nationalism . |
| 28 | She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again . |
| 29 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 30 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |