Example sentences of "there had [been] something [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been something familiar about her , Riven realised . |
| 2 | There had been something familiar about him , and Stuart had stopped , uncertain . |
| 3 | He and Charlie had had a good laugh over that particular house , but there had been something serious in Charlie 's laughter and Jack had guessed he aimed high . |
| 4 | Lively and headstrong , considered beautiful in her day ( and there had been something proud about her — the way she held her head ) , she had married well and had lived abroad for almost all my life . |
| 5 | Senga looked at her quickly , before turning away — perhaps there had been something amusing in one of Mama 's letters . |
| 6 | There had been something predatory about it ; the sort of smile a fox might give the remaining chickens when he left the hen-house . |