Sentence examples for had been did from inspiring English sources

Only when he accepted that he would not become a minister, as his father had been, did he turn to art.

But the riders behind us, if that was what they had been, did not show themselves again.

I joined him for a minute and learned that the architect's exact words had been: "Did you think you had to take the coach because you were fetching Cinderella?" I didn't know what to make of it, it was such a nasty question.

"The job had been done.

The damage had been done.

Some damage had been done.

That had been done for years.

It had been done.

Ideological art had been done, she said.

He said the legwork had been done.

But the damage had been done.