Example sentences of "tom had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember one British Open at Turnberry , we were playing the 16th and Tom had been in a burn . |
| 2 | Since Willie was so desperate to be accepted in Mrs Hartridge 's class Tom had been helping in every possible way . |
| 3 | Tom had been much more of a snob than she was . |
| 4 | Since the outbreak of the war Harriet had rather prided herself that she and Tom had been able , for the most part , to manage their property by themselves and certainly the employment of any domestic help at this juncture seemed a luxury to which she was almost ashamed to admit . |
| 5 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 6 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 7 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 8 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 9 | Tom had been keen to take advantage of the medical facilities at Wiesbaden , if only to get his teeth sorted out . |
| 10 | Perversely , she wished now that Tom had been in the room after all . |
| 11 | Belinda blurted dismissively , disturbed to find that Tom had been aware of at least some of Greg 's attentions to her that evening . |
| 12 | The planned trip had never assumed any level of reality of detail in Belinda 's mind because , consciously or unconsciously , Tom had been filling her thoughts . |
| 13 | Tom had been invited to share the celebration of old friends who lived just across the state border . |
| 14 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 15 | The real trouble with old Tom had been that when he came into contact with the evil mind , the scheming , devious , manipulative mind of some murderers , he could not bear it . |