Example sentences of "[det] had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been Sam 's first day out since the birth of Jennifer , and it seemed to all on board that the good Lord was smiling upon them and giving a sign of His blessing upon the marriage . |
| 2 | BK told us this had been base camp for early attempts on Kanchenjunga from the south . |
| 3 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 4 | In the Reformation this had been North-South between Protestants and Catholics . |
| 5 | This had been Jesus ' gospel ; it concerned the Father only , not the Son — for Jesus had not proclaimed himself . |
| 6 | This had been Baxter 's privilege until , one day , Mr. Owen gave this position to his rival . |
| 7 | This had been Christine 's place , once . |
| 8 | Fergus should have been standing here , thought Taliesin , and there was a pain and an aching void at the knowledge , for this had been Fergus 's quest and his covenant . |
| 9 | This had been Sir Ivor at his brilliant best , striking with one deadly burst of speed . |
| 10 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 11 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 12 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 13 | Another had been William Temple , Butler 's necessary ally in the passing of his Act . |
| 14 | All had been part of the Reagan-Bush administration which illegally sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 15 | His best friend , Simon , was one of six children and all had been members in their turn . |
| 16 | Up to now all had been surmise and suspicion . |
| 17 | I suppose she 's thinking of Terry , she thought , and squeezed Sarah 's arm , although Believe Me If All had been Joe 's favourite rather than Terry 's . |
| 18 | The fifty pence went unclaimed and all had been witness to the head 's control of events . |
| 19 | All had been HBsAg positive for more than six months and had histologic features of chronic hepatitis . |
| 20 | And of the heads , perhaps not surprisingly , the most effective of all had been Shakespeare 's ; it had scythed its way through a whole astonished platoon of sepoys advancing in single file through the jungle . |
| 21 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 22 | Her hands had trembled as they tried to re-fill Lady West 's cup and the latter had been quack to press home her advantage . |
| 23 | I met Herman at the FitzGeralds ’ [ the writer Kevin FitzGerald and his wife Janet — the latter had been Herman 's producer on the occasions when he broadcast on Woman 's Hour ] , and he says that there is less of Ivy every time he sees her . |
| 24 | Neither had been virgins when they first loved in this very room but each had learned from the other how to make real love , how to prepare and gradually extend the intensity until the explosion . |
| 25 | It was set up five years ago as a new shop to combine the Art Bookshop and the Poster Gallery , which prior to that had been part of the Paperback Bookshop . |
| 26 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |
| 27 | That had been part of the learning process . |
| 28 | That had been hours ago . |
| 29 | That had been hours ago , she thought . |
| 30 | That had been Emma 's remedy for everything . |