Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She even took sides against Nan-Nan who had been her own nurse . |
| 2 | Could she not say that it had been her own choice to leave the Longhills , that they were not suited to one another ? |
| 3 | Yet , like so many other things she later regretted , it had been her own decision . |
| 4 | I 'm sure she would n't have taken the matter lightly if it had been her own colleagues who had been beaten up and tortured . |
| 5 | If they had been her own children , she would have used them differently . |
| 6 | She glanced repeatedly at her daughter in the long white linen gown which had been her own wedding dress . |
| 7 | That had been her own mother 's philosophy . |
| 8 | It had been her own fault , in a way : she had been reluctant to talk about it in front of Francis . |
| 9 | She felt as much for that girl as if she had been her own flesh and blood . |
| 10 | He had been his own man on the training run at Quantico and it had not been held against him there . |
| 11 | Yet it had been his own vision , his own analysis , his own solution . |