Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when we , ma when my mum had been married twenty five years that time . |
| 2 | My sparrow had been lucky that I scared the cat off when I did . |
| 3 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 4 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 5 | My reaction had been spontaneous and visceral . |
| 6 | My night had been restless too with humid city temperature . |
| 7 | The Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ had himself been taught at the school in the eighteen-nineties — my father had been one of his contemporaries . |
| 8 | Mr. Sutton was a nice old gentleman — looked distinguished with his white hair and small white beard , a stickler for accuracy and forever telling me that my father had been one of his pupils . |
| 9 | ‘ Because my father had been absent I immediately wanted him to become my father , but of course he could n't be . ’ |
| 10 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 11 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 12 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |
| 13 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 14 | But I had not had a winner since December 27 when Mr Entertainer won at Kempton Park , and many of my horses had been sick . ’ |
| 15 | I came to the conclusion that my hunch had been right , but that the ditches must have been dug in mid-Victorian times and the earth piled on the track , putting all the older items out of detecting range . |
| 16 | The first time my mother had been indignant and remarked that Syl had no right to disappear for the evening without telling us where he was going . |
| 17 | It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once . |
| 18 | Was she a rare and special creature , some fabulous beauty , of whom Jeopardy had been fond , or had she simply been a vessel for his seed ? |
| 19 | Her enthusiasm had been infectious . |
| 20 | Yet the sobbing of the unfortunate women who had found lice in their hair had been easier to endure than the malicious pleasure of those who had found none . |
| 21 | Her progress had been one of near-collisions , dodging round cases and people , and just as the gate she 'd wanted had come in sight she had seen Lori and a man passing through . |
| 22 | The evasive answers told her progress had been minimal , it was going to be some time before Emelda faced a press launch . |
| 23 | Her reactions had been childish , the behaviour of a spoiled brat , but he had a cheek to point it out when he was only an employee of her father 's . |
| 24 | Elizabeth certainly had a much tighter control over her Council than her sister had been able to exercise . |
| 25 | Its builders had been obsessed with the number eight . |
| 26 | They had thought their money had been safe in gilts ( government backed securities ) . |
| 27 | As they listened in class to the dialogues which the children were constructing for themselves they were able to see quite clearly where their preparation had been deficient and where their teaching of new material had not been thorough enough . |
| 28 | She looked a bit different , somehow , old Doris for one thing , she had a clean apron on , and her hair had been home-permed . |
| 29 | Since her return to England , her existence had been little more than a living nightmare . |
| 30 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |