Example sentences of "[pron] that [pron] had been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . )
2 She was n't cruel enough to tell him that there had been times when she had almost wished he had .
3 It did not disturb him that he had been under observation ; he was not accustomed to deprecate what he was , or to undervalue it .
4 It made it no better for her that they had been after her father .
5 ‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her .
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