Example sentences of "that [pron] had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impression that everyone had been industrious until their arrival , and would be industrious when they had gone , grew stronger . |
| 2 | However , with the stories of massive repair costs being bandied around and a particularly uninspiring incumbent devoting most of his energies to the adjacent parish , it was understandable that no-one had been brave enough to voice their concern . |
| 3 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 4 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 5 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 6 | I decided this would be a good experimental site on which to try my new detector , and for the first hour of detecting felt that I had been right in my assumption that I had really cleaned this place out . |
| 7 | Jan was briskly maternal , having decided that I had been Wronged . |
| 8 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 9 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 10 | It was quite phenomenal and I felt that I had been privileged to run in such a race . |
| 11 | I could accept that I had been foolish , but that acceptance was not yet a sufficient antidote for the niggling little pain in my heart . |
| 12 | So I said that I had been lucky in a draw for leave , and that now Montague was dead I was to rejoin my original battalion . |
| 13 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 14 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 15 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 16 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 17 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 18 | I knew that I could achieve results despite the difficulties , and I knew that I had been able to demonstrate the ability to work with people of other countries . |
| 19 | In spite of the rain 's best efforts , I was pleased that I had been able to observe and film interesting mink behaviour . |
| 20 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |
| 21 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 22 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 23 | If you are hit on the head by a pot of paint whilst walking under a ladder you would not be asked to show the precise act of negligence that caused the paint to fall ; it goes without saying that someone had been negligent . |
| 24 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 25 | He had sunk so low that she had been obliged to approach Dr McNab for his help . |
| 26 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 27 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 28 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 29 | Stephen was almost sure this was n't so , that she had been twenty-eight when he was born and thirty-four when she ran away . |
| 30 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |