Example sentences of "[vb past] be that [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 2 | The last they heard was that he had gone over the wall for two years . |
| 3 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 4 | All that mattered was that we had reached the summit , and more importantly had a good day out . |
| 5 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 6 | The attraction of Lucas Simmonds had been that he had appeared to be confidently , unusually , happily " normal " , good friend , good sport , reliable leader , bright chap , blazer , flannels and smiling face . |
| 7 | One of these had been that he had suggested going to the Isle of Wight on holiday with the same friends , every year , self-catering . |
| 8 | On Oct. 22 Mohorita was recalled by deputies from the Federal Assembly Presidium , although the reason cited was that he had breached protocol by chewing gum during a speech to the Assembly on Sept. 13 by France 's President Mitterrand . |