Example sentences of "[conj] that have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 2 | I had wished Nour dead because he would not stay with me , and that had been a palimpsest of desire . |
| 3 | Only one train crossed the near-distant bridge at this hour and that had been a night train going nowhere , its carriages empty and its windows dark . |
| 4 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 5 | He had been in hospital many years before to have his appendix removed and that had been an uneventful procedure . |