Example sentences of "[adv] [that] [pron] [vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 2 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 3 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 4 | Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night . |
| 5 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 6 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 7 | Just as well that she had been at least spared the ordeal of having to face him this morning . |
| 8 | It meant at least that someone had been in the burial mound , though not necessarily recently . |
| 9 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |