Example sentences of "that had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And Mrs Iverson would certainly have noticed if that had been disturbed . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd taken him literally , although now she questioned whether that had been wise . |
| 3 | He said that had been a concession to them to allow families to stay together . |
| 4 | That had been the moment of her undoing . |
| 5 | That had been wrongly interpreted to mean that Conran was actively seeking a suitor . |
| 6 | The H16 engine was designed for the 3-litre formula that came into effect in 1966 and was developed from mating a pair of the 1.5-litre V8s that had been so successful in the preceding years . |
| 7 | ‘ Solid , thorough , plodding , even , ’ ( that had been said of him by a Bromberg once to Frau Nordern — — but once only ) ‘ but kind in his shy way and decent to the very core . ’ |
| 8 | It was clear that Miss Morgan 's brain had been fully engaged on what she was doing , which was pushing a client 's interest , and that such attention as she could spare from that had been centred on her forthcoming marriage . |
| 9 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |
| 10 | That had been easier to finish . |
| 11 | He wondered just how that had been assessed . |
| 12 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 13 | That had been even less good than usual . |
| 14 | Jack was gone ; not away on business , nor even ill in hospital , terrible though that had been , but really gone . |
| 15 | That had been before Dr Spock . |
| 16 | But that had been in the immediacy of action and as much to save himself as to save Gomez . |
| 17 | But that had been out of the question , of course . |
| 18 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 19 | That had been before she had declined to become his wife . |
| 20 | But that had been , as she had then suspected and now knew , a device , a dream . |
| 21 | That had been harmless fun . |
| 22 | That had been the central claim of Tawney 's Secondary Education for All , made in 1922 and constantly reaffirmed since . |
| 23 | What a night that had been ! |
| 24 | That had been crucial , after all , had n't it ? |
| 25 | If that had been the case then the much softer shells would have disintegrated first . |
| 26 | That had been the way of things for several years . |
| 27 | It seemed amazing that it was less than a year since that had been said . |
| 28 | That had been reserved for Nicholas and even there , le Grant wondered how far it was genuine . |
| 29 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 30 | That had been a great adventure , but it was nothing to his travels . |