Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 2 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 3 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
| 4 | Only now did I realize that I loved this man to whose power I had been subject all my life . |
| 5 | The hot date — the central groove I had been wire brushing — swooned at the sight of them . |
| 6 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 7 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 8 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 9 | And she had been fool enough to let him draw her in to it . |
| 10 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 11 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 12 | She had come all the way from Wales , where she had been Second in the Bwbachod Six of her Brownie Guide Pack . |
| 13 | Highly regarded by Elizabeth Woodville , she had been lady of the bedchamber until her retirement and was one of the queen-dowager 's closest friends . |
| 14 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |
| 15 | But she had been Vanessa Vail and Dr Dismembrio and the Sewer Thing too . |
| 16 | She had been Flora Latter then ; she had become Flora Pickthorne and later on , Flora Dove . |
| 17 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 18 | Out on the fringes of the Vartaq Veil , looking for traces of her lost father , she had been part of a team excavating a Dyson sphere constructed around a white dwarf star . |
| 19 | Before he 'd interfered in her life she had been part of a team , doing a job that she enjoyed well . |
| 20 | A 15-year-old Darlington girl admitted yesterday that she had been part of a gang which broke into the town 's Salvation Army Hostel . |
| 21 | If she had been Nick she would have cried , or at least put on a hurt face . |
| 22 | She had been Carolyn 's protector for so long . |
| 23 | She had been stone deaf , as well . |
| 24 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |
| 25 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 26 | She had been Kettering 's wife , the letter was hers and sometime , perhaps , she would have to open it . |
| 27 | She had been Form Mistress of Junior C from 1950 to 1962 and taught with patience , sympathy , and understanding , introducing many boys not only to drama ( as was to be expected ) but also to cricket and football . |
| 28 | In the six years and more that she had been David 's wife , not once had she heard his voice raised in such dark anger . |
| 29 | And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations . |
| 30 | And Laura — if she had been earth and water as she shaped her pots , she was now , like Cleopatra , all fire and air . |