Example sentences of "been [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only witnesses had been Sarah 's stepmother , and an ecclesiastic colleague who envied him his good fortune . |
| 2 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 3 | Had it been Dierdriu 's son ? |
| 4 | She 's been Mum 's friend since they were kids , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She had been Kettering 's wife , the letter was hers and sometime , perhaps , she would have to open it . |
| 6 | Rogan , who has been Sunderland 's discovery of the season since being switched to the centre of defence by Crosby three months after his £350,000 transfer from Celtic , reverted to left back in the 2–2 draw at Brighton , when his first goal for the club salvaged a priceless point . |
| 7 | I do n't know how I turned invisible — it must have been Fincara 's spell going wrong . |
| 8 | It seems to have been Moscow 's need to counter a challenge from Beijing which prompted the next Soviet commitment to Cuba . |
| 9 | One of the attractions of the first book had been Minton 's delight in the shape of things — fish , bowls , tureens , vegetables , fruit , octopus , squid and elaborate sweets . |
| 10 | He had been painted in wonderful Afghan clothes , a tunic and turban of deep blue and red embroidered with gold , clothes he had brought back from the exploits during which he had found Charlotte , the fabulous exploits that had been Alexandra 's bedtime stories every night , every single night in childhood , haunting her sleep with nightmares of cruelty and savagery in wild , barbaric places . |
| 11 | He had been Felix 's friend since 1938 . |
| 12 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 13 | Lorton was in the room which had been Arabella 's studio . |
| 14 | Hartnoll , 53 , has been Grampian 's director since 1978 and ADSW secretary for five years . |
| 15 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |
| 16 | Yes , it had been Edwin 's turn for fire watching in Farringdon Street , but his wife was having a baby so Ivor Gundry , one of our best scholars , from Bridport in Dorset , had volunteered to take his place . |
| 17 | Kate 's day out had always been Nicandra 's day for experiments made to please , and sometimes to displease , Andrew . |
| 18 | Müncheberg 's second victim crashed near a crossroads at Wardia with the pilot apparently dead ; this may have been Mortimer 's aircraft . |
| 19 | THIS has been Germany 's year . |
| 20 | In the officers ' mess afterwards , Benson laughed at what he said had been Edward 's expression in the last moments of the interview — ‘ pained , old boy , quite pained . |
| 21 | Nenna knew that , but she was sure it could n't have been Edward 's fault , and at the moment she could n't be bothered with it . |
| 22 | I ca n't see that that could of been Friday 's episode that 's still effecting you today . |
| 23 | From clogged skies to choked motorways , from Clapham Junction to the Marchioness , Mr Prescott has been Labour 's voice of protest on an issue that has moved to the heart of the ‘ quality of life ’ agenda increasingly dominating the political agenda . |
| 24 | I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men . |
| 25 | Couville had been Corbett 's master and mentor when Hugh first became a clerk and , despite the gap in years and experience , they had become and remained firm friends . |
| 26 | The Confederate flag had been Ellen 's idea , to be unfurled whenever we had charterers from the deep South , and this week 's guests were three married couples from Georgia . |
| 27 | Those would have been Hester 's instructions , Ruth thought . |
| 28 | It had been Frankie 's Howerd 's wish to entertain specialist audiences , like the Fire Service , for some years with his own brand of sizzling humour . |
| 29 | Just before I snapped out of it , aborted the failed trance , I thought I saw — although I could n't be certain — the ragged hole in the beard through which Gyggle addressed the world unravel a little at its edge , exposing a slug side of what might have been Gyggle 's lip . |
| 30 | The identity of Marjorie is not known but it may have been Ayrshire 's Marjorie Bruce , daughter of Robert Bruce and mother of the first Stewart king ( See Chapter 16 ) . |