Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 2 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |
| 3 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 4 | Endill learnt he had been in the army but was told to leave after forgetting who he was fighting for . |
| 5 | She confirmed she had been to Hawaii with the hunk and said : ‘ We all had a laugh , that 's all . |
| 6 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 7 | But one worker confirmed they had been in the office and seemed to be completely genuine . |
| 8 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 9 | Dr McGarry claimed it had been in response to the earlier statement and he welcomed the decision . |
| 10 | The judge said that Alan Murray claimed he had been in the welfare section of the UVF but he said : ‘ Membership of any proscribed organisation is a most serious matter . ’ |
| 11 | On board was a Maltese deck passenger who boasted he had been in nine different prisons in England ; after we had sailed a friend of his was discovered stowed away in the chain locker . |
| 12 | Connolly denied the charges but the court heard that swabs taken from his hands indicated he had been in contact with explosives and that he was found in possession of a key to the front door of the second house . |
| 13 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 15 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 16 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 17 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 18 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 19 | She knew it had been against his better judgement ; that all his own instincts had told him to wait , to take it more slowly . |
| 20 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 21 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 22 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 23 | She sighed , and remembered she had been on the verge of phoning Bridget when Veronica called . |
| 24 | If he had denied it , and we later proved he had been on the moat , then it would have been a different matter . ’ |
| 25 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 26 | Rain said she had been into the studio but not the flat . |
| 27 | She said she had been to the theatre and that afterwards they had talked late . |
| 28 | Today , too ; how I wished you had been with me at the concert . |
| 29 | Emily , swimming vigorously , came to assist her , and together they managed to reach shallow water , where Gwendolen promptly denied she had been in danger . |
| 30 | The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas . |