Example sentences of "had been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 2 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 3 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 4 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 5 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 6 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 7 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 8 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 9 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 10 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 11 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 12 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 13 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 14 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 15 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 16 | Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit . |
| 17 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 18 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 19 | According to H. C. Robbins Landon , it was the Tristan und Isolde shortly before that , a production of swarming darkness and rare musical sensibility , that had been for many people one of the greatest of all their musical experiences . |
| 20 | The powerful states of the time normally were empires , and had been for many centuries , though a few shadowy forerunners of the nation state could be seen by 1500 . |
| 21 | An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia . |
| 22 | There had been for many years various organizations to co-ordinate Nonconformist work in both political and religious fields and the oldest bodies dated back to the previous century . |
| 23 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 24 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 25 | These limitation terms were incorporated in all contracts between seedsmen and farmers and had been for many years . |
| 26 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 27 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 28 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 29 | His interest in humanity now was stone dead , and probably had been for some time . |
| 30 | ‘ That you were having an affair — had been for some time . ’ |