Example sentences of "had been [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 2 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 3 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 4 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 5 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 6 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 7 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 8 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 9 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 10 | ( Perhaps the fact that the pubs had been open all day had something to do with that . ) |
| 11 | And nobody 's order books had been full this summer . |
| 12 | Last year the London evening newspapers had been able several times to trot out their favourite banner headline . |
| 13 | Trade had been bad that night so she thought he 'd be her last trick . |
| 14 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 15 | His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ? |
| 16 | They had been active all week , unsettling me with their noise . |
| 17 | The defence which had been suspect all season became vulnerable and the forwards simply could not score goals , so poor Palace fell out of the bottom of Division Two . |
| 18 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |