Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been a former child actress , making her film debut at the age of four , and at twelve she appeared in the London production of The Sound of Music . |
| 2 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 3 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 4 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 5 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 6 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |