Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
| 4 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |