Example sentences of "that it had been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte chose one of the least ostentatious chairs , only to find , when she rested her hand on the rounded end of the arm , that it had been carved in the likeness of a naked woman bending forwards , between whose ample gilded buttocks one of her fingers was dangling . |
| 2 | The thought that it had been inside his mouth , touching his tongue and gums and those rather small but perfect teeth , that it had been drenched in some of his most intimate fluids gave me an erotic thrill . |
| 3 | before that it had been done in eighty one , eighty two , eighty four , eighty six , eighty eight and ninety , so curiously now , it 's it 's missed out several years , |
| 4 | She learnt that it had been developed in the 1920s by a German physician , Dr Max Gerson . |
| 5 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 6 | Alders and willows and rich grass and wild rose briars described a great , smooth horseshoe shape that was still hollowed gently into the green earth , with such authority that it had been acknowledged in perpetuity as a natural boundary , and a single large field hemmed within it . |
| 7 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 8 | He published an autobiography in 1975 : he chose to portray himself as a rapscallion ( internal evidence suggests that it had been written in jail ) . |
| 9 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 10 | Qaddumi announced that it had been agreed in principle that Al-Fatah , the largest constituent group within the PLO , would re-open its offices in the Syrian capital after a break of eight years . |
| 11 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 12 | The property in the car was later put into a van and found by the police who discovered that it had been stolen in the burglary . |
| 13 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |