Sentence examples for had been were from inspiring English sources
Where its eyes had been were deep holes.
Among the performers who played on a temporary stage in back, where CBGB's stage had been, were Joan Jett, D Generation and Ronnie Spector.
It was relatively untouched, and what renovations there had been were of the DIY variety, with "window frames plugged with newspaper", Ben recalls.
He also consulted a number of history books and decided that my father's family, generations of peasants as they had been, were direct descendants of the emperors of the Tang dynasty.
The painting consists of a single, reiterated phrase — "All traces of the Griffin I had been were wiped from existence" — that grows darker with each repetition until it disappears, black against a black ground.
But the stones laid along the curving lines where the German trenches had been were the same as during the interwar years, when the Germans chiselled the names of patriotic organizations into them, turning them into monuments to nationalism.
