Example sentences of "been [adj] that [pron] had " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 2 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 3 | It was only the second time since they had been married that she had rebuffed him . |
| 4 | Friends who were not knitters had been amazed that I had never met any of the people that I would be staying with . |
| 5 | For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process . |
| 6 | Plainly , since he had been aware that she had ‘ run away ’ from him , he must have still been in Prague that morning , and must have returned to that hotel suite some time after she 'd left . |
| 7 | She had not known that Scathach had known , not been aware that he had seen . |
| 8 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 9 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
| 10 | He had been surprised that they had discovered the Catherine Palace hideaway . |