Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 2 | I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer . |
| 3 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 4 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 5 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 6 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 7 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 8 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 9 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 10 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 11 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 12 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
| 13 | She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères . |
| 14 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 15 | She had been through enough already . |
| 16 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 17 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 18 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 19 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 20 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 21 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 22 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 23 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 24 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 25 | They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had . |
| 26 | They had been through all this before . |
| 27 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 28 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 29 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
| 30 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |