Example sentences of "had [been] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Testament kings had been warriors and conquerors , smiting their enemies , but they had also been vehicles through whom the law of God was interpreted and enforced . |
| 2 | There had been attempts and he knew that . |
| 3 | She had suggested that I should go and fill it , but there had been ice and snow outside , and darkness , and to reach the coal I should have to climb down into the concrete bunker . |
| 4 | Its chief exports had been sponges and merchant seamen , and those brought in nothing in wartime . |
| 5 | Very belatedly the Foreign Secretary was forced to admit that the frogman seen by the Russians had been Crabb and , as a result , on 1O May the subject was aired in parliament . |
| 6 | One knew exactly where there had been difficulties and compromises behind the scenes . |
| 7 | ( According to official figures , the surplus for 1988 and 1989 ( estimated ) , had been $941,000,000 and $241,000,000 respectively . ) |
| 8 | She should have been , would have been , indeed , originally it had been Cara and not her who had been going to make the trip to Czechoslovakia alone . |
| 9 | There had been laughter and one of the men had said , ‘ But you 're not far wrong . ’ |
| 10 | Up to now all had been surmise and suspicion . |
| 11 | Finally there had been shoes and a fine pair of leather boots . |
| 12 | Only the older ones , the ones whose husbands had been engineers and farmers and management consultants first , agreed with her . |
| 13 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 14 | One member of the staff team of nine had nursing training ; two had been teachers and the rest were from a variety of other backgrounds . |
| 15 | Other relations had been bishops and aldermen , ‘ barristers-at-law ’ , but my father was most proud of an uncle who had invented Aero , a kind of chocolate with bubbles of air in it ( by accident , as it happened ) . |
| 16 | 114 ) ; when a member of the court was a shareholder of the brewery company which owned the premises in question : R. V. Gee ( 1901 ) 17 T.L.R. 374 ; when three of the members of a compensation tribunal which refused the renewal of a licence had , along with their fellow justices , instructed a solicitor to oppose the renewal before the tribunal : Frome United Breweries v. Bath JJ. [ 1926 ] A.C. 586 ; when three members of the committee which granted and confirmed a licence had been shareholders and directors of the company on whose behalf the licence was applied for , although they resigned as directors and sold their shares before taking part in the proceedings : R. v. Hain ( 1896 ) 12 T.L.R. 323 . |
| 17 | On the polo field they had been dynamite and almost telepathetic in anticipating each other 's moves . |
| 18 | He had been therapist and client both , had asked the questions and supplied the answers , aiming at total frankness , keeping nothing back , expressing to those bare walls , that metal table and black-leather swivel chair , that window with its half-drawn , dark-blue blind , the crawling distastes and shames , the self-disgust , the shrinking from light and the fear which seemed sometimes to beat with frenzied wings against bars in his brain . |
| 19 | The smoke had been west and north when they had looked from the Ridgery . |
| 20 | There was the binding of wounds and examining of bruises to be considered , and the saying of prayers and sewing-up in bedding of those whose lives had been forfeit and above all there was a great deal of talking to be one , for , as the Magistrate scientifically observed , nothing unusual can happen among human beings without generating an immense , compensating volume of chatter . |
| 21 | But it had been Elisabeth and Daniel themselves who , in 1939 , elected to spend the whole summer alone on Møn , rather than accompany their parents to South America . |
| 22 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 23 | I thought it had been Diane and the Charles ! |
| 24 | So what had been licit and reasonably commonplace practices were now forbidden and became exceptional . |
| 25 | It was a normal delivery , with only a little entonox at the end — something I felt really happy about as our daughter had been breech and delivered by caesarean section after a horrid , induced labour . |
| 26 | Breakfast had been fruit and coffee ; she 'd firmly resisted the croissants with butter and apricot jam . |
| 27 | William John Tomlinson , whose forbears had been watermen and then boat builders , had turned his skills into property building and eventually he managed to acquire land of his own on which to develop houses . |
| 28 | They had been father and daughter , and sworn enemies , for a long time now ; they understood each other too well for comfort . |
| 29 | Opening the prosecution case , John Burke QC said both Caddocks and Scott were involved in the road haulage business as had been Chorley and this provided an ideal cover for importing drugs from Belgium . |
| 30 | The last couple of times Yanto had seen him before joining the army , it had been touch and go . |