Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] been [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 2 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 3 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 4 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 5 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |
| 6 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |
| 7 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 8 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
| 9 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 10 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 11 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 12 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 13 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 14 | And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) . |
| 15 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 16 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 17 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |