Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That look had been far from cold , and her insides had melted . |
| 2 | If that opportunity had been available to him , who knows what difference it might have made ? |
| 3 | ( He continued to insist , nonetheless , that that one-sidedness had been necessary , and that the negative points he had made must not be withdrawn , nor even weakened , but merely held together with the positive . |
| 4 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 5 | That child had been impertinent . |
| 6 | You , poor little one , were the victim of a pure overwhelming desire , and I of a smaller desire by no means pure ; and I feel much more abject than if that desire had been satisfied . |
| 7 | The walk back from that moment had been silent but the closeness between them shocked and frightened them both . |
| 8 | The sightings of Philip Drew that evening had been numerous and well-attested . |
| 9 | The postman was a tall , skinny man with near-white hair and a permanent stoop ; this brief caricature of an impression was all that Forester had been able to make out from a distance . |
| 10 | One environmentalist said last night that the report would reveal whether that criticism had been fair . |
| 11 | Her last waking thought had been that she was wrong , and that Ace had been right all the time . |
| 12 | The trip from Jura that morning had been exciting enough , with a following sea cork-screwing the boat wildly as we ran before it , with the occasional shuddering ‘ gybe ’ when a shift of wind took us by surprise . |
| 13 | That news had been serious , but not disastrous . |
| 14 | She struggled against the unfamiliar effects of the alcohol , against the almost overwhelming tiredness , and forced her brain into action , pushing away the thought that perhaps that man had been right and Mark 's old friends had left her . |
| 15 | Apparently after two weeks of secret negotiations with prominent Croatian Serbs , Tudjman announced on July 31 that legislation had been prepared to offer home rule ( with its own police force ) to the Serbian community in the self-proclaimed " Autonomous Region of Krajina " . |
| 16 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 17 | That statement had been true and had in any case not been made by Moorgate Mercantile , since H.P.I. was not an agent of Moorgate Mercantile for the purpose of making such a statement . |
| 18 | Members of that nobility had been prominent in the wars against the Muslims in Spain rather than in Outremer , and the decline of military opportunities in the Iberian peninsula after 1264 left aggressive energies untapped . |
| 19 | A negotiated solution to the trade dispute with Nepal , the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) in Sri Lanka [ for which see p. 37316 ] and a political solution for the Tamil areas of that country had been primary objectives outlined in the National Front 's election manifesto . |
| 20 | If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution . |
| 21 | Mackie at that time had been unable to conceive and was troubled and unhappy because of it . |