Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 2 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 3 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 4 | But Bicker had seen her wandering Glenbrittle , and she had been to the bothy . |
| 5 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 6 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 7 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
| 8 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 9 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 10 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 11 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 12 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
| 13 | Dominic was dead , and he had been in my bedroom barely half an hour before he was killed . |
| 14 | Others would emerge from the ruin of the body itself , and he had been in constant contact with Ian Macdonald , who was still at work in Oxford . |
| 15 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 16 | His name was Roberto Coloni and he had been in hospital following a bad fall in which he had broken his shoulder blade , forearm and two ribs , as well as suffering bad concussion , which had affected his hearing . |
| 17 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
| 18 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 19 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 20 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 21 | She turned away , leaving Peggy standing stiff and cold , although the sun was shining and it had been in the seventies all day . |