Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 2 | Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation . |
| 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 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 6 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Over the years there had been many tributes to her beauty and her dancing , but the one I particularly treasure appeared only recently . |
| 10 | She still had the pearls , but there had been many tears since she first wore them . |
| 11 | Their action may have resulted from purely local causes : there had been many border clashes . |
| 12 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |
| 13 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 14 | The report showed that there had been many changes and improvements since 1986 , but that some deficiencies remain . |
| 15 | There had been many injuries due to frostbite . |
| 16 | Trevor Radway , Chairman of the Forest of Dean Railway Company Limited , said there had been many improvements in recent times , and the railway was going from strength to strength . |
| 17 | Of course there had been many Christmas parties after Maman went away , Aunt Tossie saw to that — but they were not memorable . |
| 18 | Then the farmer admitted that there had been many applicants for the job already , but each had been driven out of the stall by the horse . |
| 19 | There had been many nights like this , and she had been furiously ridden before , as now , by this tireless Mighty One , face fixed in the inhuman lineaments of lust . |
| 20 | On Jan. 25 , however , Tanjug quoted statements by four refugees from Shkodër who said that anti-Stalinist demonstrations had taken place there on Jan. 11 and 14 , involving up to 7,000 people ; that there had been many arrests ; and that police reinforcements were patrolling the city and the surrounding area . |
| 21 | There had been many amalgamations , the Transport and General Workers and many other large unions had absorbed small unions to form a formidable barrier to employers , there was less interunion rivalry and the authority of the General Council of the TUC was accepted and practically unchallenged . |
| 22 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 23 | There were more seagulls than there had been that morning , on the cliffs and on the sea itself . |
| 24 | There had been that heat , that fierceness like a scorchmark . |
| 25 | There had been little enthusiasm for the renewal of war in Scotland in 1332 , and apart from his victory at Halidon Hill Edward had scarcely distinguished himself on his Scottish campaigns . |
| 26 | There was an emphasis on the generation of female employment as well as on the general need for diversification but there had been little development by the outbreak of war . |
| 27 | Since its construction almost thirty years before there had been little capital investment . |
| 28 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 29 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 30 | But there had been little doubt he would go from the moment Micheal Hurley had called during the Thanksgiving holiday to say he had at last been funded for a major operation in the Middle East and would Coleman be interested in going back to Cyprus as a DEA contractor ? |