Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not . |
| 3 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 4 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 5 | Beside the door of each room a supply of ready-loaded firearms had been laid ; every available weapon , from the Enfield rifles of those killed earlier in the siege to native flintlocks and the countless sporting guns which had been such a feature of " the possessions " , had been pressed into service . |
| 6 | This was the 1st Ukrainian Division , many of whose members came from those parts of Poland incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 and which had been such a special concern of the AFHQ letter of 6 March defining " Soviet nationals " . |
| 7 | By contrast , the early 1980s were dominated by the re-emergence of the drift to the South East which had been such a focus of attention in the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 8 | Focus on the two-party system , the growing strength of the organized working-class and the gradual decline of the big single-issue movements which had been such a central feature of the mid-Victorian political scene were visible signs of this transformation . |
| 9 | To relinquish her calling , or the possibility of the companionship and family life which had been such an influential part of her background . |
| 10 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |
| 11 | As a result of this new alliance with the bishops , we see little of the anti-episcopalian rhetoric which had been such a prominent feature of the Whig platform during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 12 | Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation . |
| 13 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 14 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 15 | The truth shall set you free , but oh , the truth of her past had not done that — it had simply shown her what a selfish , unthinking thing she had been that first Terry Rourke , and then Havvie Blaine could have exploited her so . |
| 16 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 17 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 18 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 19 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 20 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 21 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 22 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 23 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 24 | She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now . |
| 25 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 26 | She had been such a fine woman . |
| 27 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 28 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 29 | On 1 August 1834 , after attending the wedding of his daughter Priscilla who had been such a tireless assistant to her father , Thomas Fowell Buxton and his gentlemen associates attended a ‘ grand public dinner ’ to celebrate the end of slavery with toasts and speeches . |
| 30 | In this more fiercely competitive situation people quarrel more readily and more often , and the elder who had been such a paragon of gentle paternalism finds things increasingly difficult . |