Example sentences of "[vb past] been that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 2 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 3 | There always had been that part of him , rarely seen , that she did n't understand . |
| 4 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 5 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 6 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 7 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 8 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 9 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 10 | suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree . |
| 11 | Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls . |
| 12 | Bernice 's opinion , then , had been that Ace was brave , bright , emotional and impulsive ; she had shown her feelings , often forcibly . |
| 13 | There had been that heat , that fierceness like a scorchmark . |
| 14 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 15 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 16 | There were more seagulls than there had been that morning , on the cliffs and on the sea itself . |
| 17 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 18 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 19 | Cotterell 's experience so far had been that RCO had virtually pre-written most of Carson 's material for him . |