Example sentences of "[pron] had be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 2 | The only time I had was five hours on the Sunday beforehand , and that was supposed to be a rest day . ’ |
| 3 | The last break I had was five months ago . |
| 4 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 5 | That very morning , it appeared , they had lost a couple of turns — one of which had been two sisters : a singing and dancing act . |
| 6 | Learning from their heavy losses , the Soviets abandoned offensives using convoys of tanks , which had been easy targets , and adopted more flexible methods , relying particularly on helicopter raids . |
| 7 | Largely because the sport had focused almost entirely on the racing craft used on inland waters , the Firths of Clyde , Forth and Tay , which had been strong centres once , had all but died away : with Royal West boating mainly in Glasgow and the new Dundee University on the Tay near Perth . |
| 8 | In June 1990 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , a leading government claimant , had established a special task force to investigate whether Drexel had contributed to the failure of any of the savings and loans institutions ( " thrifts " ) which had been big customers of the bank . |
| 9 | She had been six years old then and she had thought the fireworks the most beautiful sight in the world . |
| 10 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 11 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 12 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 13 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 14 | She had been eight years old and that was sixteen years ago . |
| 15 | Old enough to take care of himself , while she had been eight years old . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All she had were some notes she made in the car , witnessed by Dexter . |
| 18 | What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants . |
| 19 | She was the daughter of a respected and well-to-do burgess of Lynne ( as King 's Lynn was then called ) who had been five times Mayor , and Alderman of the High Guild of the Trinity . |
| 20 | That was bad enough but Italian Constantino Rocca , who had been five shots behind the 39-year-old Scot coming up the last , sank a six feet putt for a birdie three to close the gap by two . |
| 21 | At a meeting on July 23 , politicians who had been major figures in the pre-1980 period agreed to bring their respective political parties into a united front against President Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) . |
| 22 | These were a Tartar people who had been traditional enemies of the Lombards and the Eastern Empire at Constantinople for generations . |
| 23 | Free produce , like antislavery generally , received some publicity from the visit of Mrs Stowe and her husband in 1853 but ebbed in popularity when the Richardsons of Newcastle who had been prime propagandists for the movement had to withdraw in 1854 . |
| 24 | To quote the same news report : ‘ Supporters who had been fierce rivals seconds before when Don Gillies fired in an 80th minute equaliser for Bristol , suddenly joined in a combined celebration . |
| 25 | Members who had been earlier supporters of television were confirmed in their views ; those who had been uncertain found themselves in favour ; several original opponents became supporters . |
| 26 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 27 | The successful parties included the Popular Movement for the Revolution ( Mouvement populaire de la révolution — MPR ) , led by President Mobutu Sese Seko and hitherto the sole legal party ; the Union for Democracy and Social Progress ( Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social — UDPS ) led by Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba ; a party led by Nguza Karl I Bond ( who had been Foreign Affairs Minister until May 1990 — see p. 37446 ) ; and an African Socialist Party . |
| 28 | This was the case with the small group who had been daily injectors of speed . |
| 29 | Men who had been seasonal workers formerly began talking of going stone-gathering and ditching during the winter . |
| 30 | There was a tremendous release of tension , particularly for the people , the women who had been permanent workers as opposed to the students . |