Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 2 | had been Hull University 's social secretary and was a successful agent representing British and international artists . |
| 3 | An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down . |
| 4 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 5 | By contrast , although there have been disagreements Israel 's bond with the United States has been rock-solid , built upon agreement ‘ concerning the nature and extent of the Soviet threat to the region ’ . |
| 6 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 7 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 8 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 9 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |
| 10 | Alan Wheat has been Kansas City 's congressman since 1982 . |
| 11 | Dexter remembered she had once been David Parkin 's lover . |
| 12 | This had long been Meredith Putt 's favourite ride . |
| 13 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 14 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 15 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 16 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 17 | The dramatic feature of the day had been Manuel Caballeros 's climb from 5th to equal 1st place . |
| 18 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |
| 19 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 20 | The battered instrument had been Paddy Byrne 's most treasured possession and he had played it like a genius when his belly was full of beer . |
| 21 | An area of consistency has been President Ceausescu 's obsession with Romania 's sovereignty . |
| 22 | Its first post-cold war opportunity has been President Bush 's occupation of Panama in December 1989 . |
| 23 | And , since then , there had been Mr Marr 's disappearance and my Dad 's own , frightening version of the Second Coming . |
| 24 | Such cut-and-thrust politicking has always been Mr Brown 's speciality . |
| 25 | Lord Hollick is believed to have been Mr Montgomery 's main backer originally but there were rumours of a rift following the resignation of the Mirror 's political editor , Alastair Campbell , last week , according to the Sunday Times . |
| 26 | THE most important news for the economy in the last week or so has not been Mr Lamont 's Budget , nor the Government 's travails over the Maastricht treaty , but the challenge to President 's Yeltsin 's Government in Russia . |
| 27 | Had Norwich not defeated Notts County in the fifth round that afternoon , it could well have been Mr Stringer 's first and last address to the nation 's footballing public . |
| 28 | She has been a deputy Speaker since 1987 , and is understood to have been Mr Kinnock 's choice for Speaker if Labour had won last week 's General Election . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 30 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |