Example sentences of "had been [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 2 | Mia 's lawyer said : ‘ If there had been threats he 'd call the cops . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah the master walked past , if they had been boys they would have said something , you know , go into your study and do some work , do something you know , but because they were girls th we were girls they did n't |
| 4 | There had been poems she had liked . |
| 5 | Secondly , regarding the CTTs , there had been negotiations which he hoped would prove constructive . |