Example sentences of "thing that had [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also offered in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been done against him , providing that the English returned to their allegiance without treachery . |
| 2 | Open opposition is strongly implied by his offer in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been said against him . |
| 3 | Tosh said he did n't like some things that had been written about her in papers . |
| 4 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 5 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |