Example sentences of "that he had been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 2 | He knew that he had been the only really close friend and confidant of Modigliani from 1907 to 1914 , until they were separated by the war . |
| 3 | Buckingham did not realise at first that he had been the only one to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt . |
| 4 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 5 | He had taken some comfort from the fact that he had been the last man to board the cage , so at least he could watch Yorky and the others exit , before his turn came . |