Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her . |
| 2 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 3 | The branch he 'd climbed over this morning that had been tom down in the wind was moving , shaking violently . |
| 4 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 5 | Wet through again I wandered about inside the house touching pictures , clocks , trying to feel loss for these things , but it would n't come this time — that sense that had been with me since the reading of Francis 's Will had vanished . |
| 6 | Any damage that had been done , was done . |
| 7 | It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room . |
| 8 | First , that the assistant recorder refused to quash these two counts , notwithstanding that the evidential basis for the allegation that the appellant was engaged in an office or employment in consequence of his false representations was not contained in any of the committal statements , nor in any evidence that had been led before the jury , and that the appellant had not been committed for trial on the offences alleged . |
| 9 | A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today . |