Example sentences of "peter had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were even prepared to make allowances for the fact that Peter had been an appallingly neglectful father . |
| 2 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 3 | Peter had been working a debt of love . |
| 4 | One Tuesday Janice noticed that Peter had been pushing and shoving Laura during singing . |
| 5 | As a boy , Peter had been afraid of Hubert Molland . |
| 6 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 7 | Peter had been outside in the wasteland . |
| 8 | He had telephoned the present Archdeacon of Woodborough , a valued friend , the friend who had indeed suggested and supported his application , and he had said that he simply did not know why Peter had been turned down , he had no idea . |
| 9 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 10 | Peter had been Head of External Affairs at Easton House since 1986 , and through his work with the Institute 's Technical Advisory Committee has done much to raise our standing with the Government and the media . |
| 11 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 12 | The youngsters , Peter and Nona , had been hurt by blast and Peter had been burnt in the back , but they had come off lightly . |
| 13 | Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt . |
| 14 | Peter had been sitting at the table on which there was a mug of tea and a brightly coloured magazine . |
| 15 | Peter had been with the Company since its creation in 1986 , joining the original management team from Foster Wheeler Petroleum Development Limited . |
| 16 | Peter had been trying to prove they should have left him behind ; it had been his father 's idea that he should go , needing the practice if he was ever to go hunting . |
| 17 | The pope was thus successor of St Peter , between God and man , inferior to God but above man , St Peter 's vicar , but also , as Innocent now claims , " vicar of Christ " , as St Peter had been , rather than vicar of St Peter . |
| 18 | The Patrimony of St Peter had been restored and even enlarged , and papal control was to be extended even further before Innocent 's death . |
| 19 | Now Marc Alexander Vila moved closer , and she found herself surreptitiously pressing back against the stone wall of the turret room she and Peter had been allotted , trying to pretend she did n't care while her breath went ragged with apprehension . |