Example sentences of "[pron] [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne touched his dead white face , and felt nothing that had been alive . |
| 2 | And this is not the only place in The Exile where Pound shows himself restive inside the image of himself that had been built up among initiates by his propaganda of fifteen years before , when he had taken over ‘ imagism ’ and championed Ford Madox Ford 's ideas about a diction for poetry that should be ‘ plain ’ and ‘ direct ’ . |
| 3 | Either way , everything that had been beginning was now ending , ebbing away without hope . |
| 4 | In his reply , Mr Lamont ignored everything that had been said . |
| 5 | Life continued , and the rubbed and burst blisters were incorporated in the universal art of melting the ice-blocks in which the Governmental Bleeders preserved everything that had been preserved . |
| 6 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
| 7 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 8 | It annoyed her that , despite everything that had been said and done between them , and which obviously had meant absolutely nothing to him , since his attitude towards her was the same as it had ever been , she still found it difficult to control her emotions in his presence . |
| 9 | So far as he knew , everything that had been transcribed had been lodged with Jackson 's , in copy . |
| 10 | His eyes had avoided Belinda 's face this morning , as if last night was still very much on his mind and he was embarrassed about everything that had happened , and everything that had been said . |
| 11 | Indeed , after the lord pope had heard sufficient arguments from both parties , he decreed with the authority of the apostolic see that the same archbishop should demolish the church at his own expense , revoking completely everything that had been done in this matter . |
| 12 | She placed a cup of coffee in front of him , but Travis was still letting go with everything that had been tearing away at him ever since he had first clapped eyes on Rosemary . |
| 13 | Everything that had been lost he was able to restore it to Ruth . |
| 14 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 15 | Benny and Eve watched fascinated , as he shook his head sorrowfully and seemed to agree with something that had been said to him . |
| 16 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
| 17 | It was hardly going to be any great wrench to part with something that had been picked up so casually . |
| 18 | There was no shadow , but the drifting tatters of smoke from something that had been burning were still swirling in the wind and rain . |
| 19 | Claws braced on the wall beneath it , the thing strained upwards , rolling its dripping head in agony — and something that had been lying tight beneath it on the pavement slid from under its ravaged body and into the basement . |
| 20 | Surely this was something that had been threatening for years ? |
| 21 | ( v ) took a personal or financial responsibility for something that had been done by the addict in your life . |
| 22 | Probably something that had been generally agreed over the remains of the first person that had dared to call him Rosie . |
| 23 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 24 | The child who opened the door to him was the one that had been out in the fields with his father . |
| 25 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 26 | The New College book was chosen because it was one that had been donated to the College , no less than a Wykeham Professor , with others from his library for the use of future generations of scholars . |
| 27 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 28 | He favoured less one that had been taken ten years before in which his bowler hat and suit are typical of a provincial businessman . |
| 29 | Though he had n't really looked at it , he was sure it was the same one that had been forced into the tourist 's mouth . |
| 30 | The salute was repeated , different from the old Nazi one that had been discredited when Germany lost the last war . |