Example sentences of "had been [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read throughout the night , glancing at the bed from where , earlier the same day , I had been certain Francis was watching me . |
| 2 | She had been fiery Sally-Anne still , and then fiery McAllister , and a few moments ' loving from a man she loved had undone her , had brought her not joy , but a trauma of the remembered pain and anguish which Havvie had inflicted on her . |
| 3 | He knew now what had been worrying Darren , what he had been concealing . |
| 4 | There was something about old Eddy 's appearance which had been worrying Dyson subconsciously for some minutes , and he suddenly realized what it was . |
| 5 | Nigeria achieved independence within the Commonwealth in October 1960 , and part of what had been British-administered Cameroons was incorporated into it in 1961 . |
| 6 | Alia , 66 , had been communist Albania 's last leader , taking over power upon Enver Hoxha 's death in 1985 . |
| 7 | He had been convinced Anna was with Seb . |
| 8 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 9 | Gorbachev removed Bakatin as USSR Minister of Internal Affairs on Dec. 2 , appointing in his place Boris Pugo , the ethnic-Latvian chair of the CPSU central control commission and a major-general in the KGB ( he had been Latvian KGB chief in 1980-84 ) . |
| 10 | Only one patient who had been receiving NSAIDs was still anaemic and that was a man with rheumatoid arthritis whose haemoglobin concentration was 12.7 g/dl . |
| 11 | Lothar was happy ; but what what was to become of Bernard , Louis the Pious 's 19-year-old nephew , who had been ruling Italy since his father 's death in 810 ? |
| 12 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 13 | It had been old Jan 's idea . |
| 14 | That had been old Throgmorton 's idea . |
| 15 | For those ‘ Old Fighters ’ who had been enthusiastic Hitler supporters even before the demise of the Weimar Republic , for the direct beneficiaries of Nazism — the careerists , power-seekers , and apparatchiks who had the Third Reich to thank for their offices and careers in Party and State , and for the ideologically committed who had ‘ burnt their boats ’ with the Nazi regime , the belief in the Führer 's powers to bring about a miracle and achieve final victory in the face of all the odds was the blind faith rooted in self-interest and fear of the future . |
| 16 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |