Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun sg] [vb past] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council economic development convener , George Hood , said yesterday that its commitment had been on the basis of the original development , which had never materialised . |
| 2 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 3 | A day later he claimed that he had been the victim of a dirty tricks campaign , saying that his house had been under surveillance and that a carefully organized smear campaign had been waged against him , apparently concerning loans alleged to have been made to his petfood company several years previously . |
| 4 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 5 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
| 6 | Denis had had to reveal it when applying to join — they 'd have found out anyway that his father had been in the RIC . |
| 7 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |
| 8 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 9 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |