Example sentences of "had been [prep] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 2 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 3 | The details of a complaint by the master tailors of London in 1721 show that the organisation revealed in evidence at a trial in 1765 and described again in 1818 by Francis Place as a " perfect combination " had been by that last year in existence for a century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |