Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 4 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 8 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 9 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 10 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 11 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 12 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now . |
| 15 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 16 | She had been such a fine woman . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If you had been any any where else on the hill you 'd have , would n't have a chance cos you could n't , you could n't follow the track that they they di they followed the day before . |
| 20 | Sebastian and I began to feel as close as we had been all those years ago . |
| 21 | But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe . |
| 22 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 23 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 24 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 26 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 27 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 28 | But they had been few in number . |
| 29 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 30 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |