Example sentences of "that [vb past] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I I last time I were there I went there for erm well to put it fairly straight I went to consult on something that 'd been done . |
| 2 | She heard the incredulity in his voice and it fuelled the small truth that had been niggling at her , unacknowledged , all day . |
| 3 | That always used to be a fortnight to three weeks to unload a ship but this one ship , that was called , I remember that was called the lovely ship and that had been bombed , that had a bomb drop right on the . |
| 4 | There was also concern about the environmental damage that had been suffered as a result of decisions about economic development taken in Moscow rather than in the republics themselves . |
| 5 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 6 | that he finally gave way to the tears that had been building up inside him since Michael 's visit . |
| 7 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 8 | But it did break down some of the unbearable tension that had been building . |
| 9 | It trembled uncomprehendingly over Harry Dunstaple running towards the ramparts waving a sabre and shouting orders , with the bulging pockets of his Tweedside lounging jacket swinging about his knees over Ford , carefully laying a train back to the wall of the churchyard from one of the fougasses that had been dug … over the Sikhs staggering here and there with loads of small stones to shovel into another fougasse not yet completed … over the green Fleury having a rest in the shade of a tamarind beside the Church wall … and finally over the pariah dog , looking towards Fleury with admiration but from a respectful distance ( for Fleury continued to reject its advances ) . |
| 10 | So the funeral went on and the person was lowered into the grave that had been dug and the grave digger was asked to stay behind and they quickly got it put where it should be . |
| 11 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 12 | Her first two charges were a kitten that had been kicked so hard its front paw was broken and a dog who no-one would taken ‘ because it was so strange-looking . ’ |
| 13 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 14 | Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling . |
| 15 | But more often the allocation of billets reflected social relations and deferential attitudes in rural society , as when , according to one MP , at Inverary in Scotland 150 women and children were housed in a cold hall , with bedding of dirty mattresses and sacks of straw ‘ with a broad arrow on them , that had been obtained from the local jail ’ , while near by the Duke of Argyll 's castle was left uninhabited . |
| 16 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 17 | Aubrey had been at his most affected , protesting volubly at the trick that had been played on him . |
| 18 | However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings . |
| 19 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 20 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 21 | One of his greatest achievements was to complete the theory of the so-called Diophantine linear equations , a subject that had been studied since antiquity ( Box A ) . |
| 22 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
| 23 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 24 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 25 | Few fights — occasionally , you 'd get a man who 'd been gashed in the face with a bottle , that had been drunk in the bar and you 'd be called in and you 'd take him to hospital . |
| 26 | The insignia of royalty that had been assumed by the papacy reflected a monarchical form and structure of government . |
| 27 | But this time , the voices were not in the distress of agony that had been heard in the reception area . |
| 28 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
| 29 | The turnout , across the Soviet Union as a whole , was 80 per cent , and of those who voted , 76.4 per cent declared in favour of the question that had been asked of them . |
| 30 | Nothing was left of the hundreds of thousands of pounds — perhaps as much as half the floating capital of Scotland — that had been invested and over half the colonists were dead of hunger or disease . |