Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 2 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 3 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 4 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 7 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 8 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 9 | Yeah I think that what Clinton did was to play on that to get elected and you know he wanted people to see him as that , but |
| 10 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
| 11 | A section of runway had been cordoned off that afternoon by the remaining twenty policemen who had strict orders not to allow anyone through without an official pass . |
| 12 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 13 | The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that . |
| 14 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 15 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 16 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 17 | For example , three representatives from the Isle of Ely sat on the committee although only four short courses had been arranged in that Authority . |
| 18 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 19 | Whoever had been absorbed into that wall , was still somehow there … was still somehow alive . ’ |
| 20 | His entire professional career had been based on that premise . |
| 21 | Nothing more had been said on that subject . |
| 22 | ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial … |
| 23 | He himself , wounded , had been led off that bloody hill by his own esquire . |
| 24 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 25 | ‘ The Geiger counter picked up levels of radiation but we already knew those kegs had been stored in that particular freight car . |
| 26 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 27 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 28 | He added that concrete improvements had been made in that field , especially in Bulgaria . |
| 29 | There was an inlaid desk upon which silver ornaments had been placed with that carefully posed look that photos in House and Garden have . |
| 30 | A vertical thread on the chart showed the actual number of vehicles which had been completed to that stage at a given time . |