Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] [adj] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 2 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 3 | So I had been right about that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She 'd been upset by that . |
| 6 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 7 | But what if she 'd been wrong in that — what if there were other things he wanted to do ? |
| 8 | The storeroom ( yes , she had been right about that after all ) was not very big and not very well lit . |
| 9 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 10 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 11 | As Ari and Nathan went through the shop , Roirbak remembered with mixed feelings that Zambia and Tammuz might still be in there , and then wondered if some evil part of him had been aware of that all along . |
| 12 | he 'd been alright before that . |
| 13 | He had been proud of that . |