Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 3 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 4 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 8 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 9 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 10 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 11 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 12 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 13 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 16 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 17 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 20 | We had been to Euro Disney and had a toy gun for Matthew . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 22 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 23 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 24 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 27 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 28 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 29 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |