Example sentences of "[that] had been [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God , that had been a powerful shit . |
| 2 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 3 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 4 | It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room . |
| 5 | The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that . |
| 6 | Yes , that had been the happiest time of her life . |
| 7 | In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved . |
| 8 | She felt lousy , drained by the swings of emotions that had been an integral part of these last — what was it , just eight hours ? |
| 9 | The large oval locket that had been an eighteenth-birthday present from her aunt , a gold bracelet , a pair of drop earrings and — she breathed a sigh of relief — her mother 's clip were still in the sandalwood box her parents had given her . |
| 10 | This was interesting general confirmation that the element of ‘ serious , content that had been an important part of the deceased Daily Herald and News Chronicle was no longer something the non-quality reader was prepared to pay for in a daily paper . |
| 11 | He had been in hospital many years before to have his appendix removed and that had been an uneventful procedure . |