Example sentences of "[that] had been [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy did not go up to apologise to her great-grandmother ; she was too busy doing the work that had been Rosie 's routine . |
| 2 | The social provision that had been Britain 's thank-offering to an expectant postwar world after 1945 had left the problem of poverty , in some respects , remarkably and alarmingly unaffected . |
| 3 | He had been painted in wonderful Afghan clothes , a tunic and turban of deep blue and red embroidered with gold , clothes he had brought back from the exploits during which he had found Charlotte , the fabulous exploits that had been Alexandra 's bedtime stories every night , every single night in childhood , haunting her sleep with nightmares of cruelty and savagery in wild , barbaric places . |
| 4 | And , at last , Cardiff could see that the mutated horror on the stairs was not the thing from the wrecked car , not the thing that had been Barbara 's brother from 1964 . |
| 5 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 6 | And , as we saw in the previous chapter , he gave science a religious sanction , in that it promised the restoration of a dominion over nature that had been God 's intention for humanity . |