Example sentences of "[adv] [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saved much that had been thrown away as rubbish , and would otherwise have perished without trace . |
| 2 | Perhaps that had been too personal a remark . |
| 3 | It just felt like somewhere that had been absolutely clean for a very , very long time . |
| 4 | Well it really was so different from a built up place but er um , when , but the day that we came in it was mm , pouring with rain everywhere was muddy and er of course , i i there were only erm one part of this town this area , rather that had been occupied because all the other parts were all fields . |
| 5 | He knew well enough , because once that had been his world too . |
| 6 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 7 | Something had happened two years ago that had been traumatic enough to send Ana de Santis blind . |
| 8 | Mungo crouched and ran his hands through the grass wondering about the bird 's skull , but even that had been removed . |
| 9 | His relationship with Don Roberto had been strictly business and even that had been in abeyance since Trent 's posting to Ireland . |
| 10 | And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow . |
| 11 | The clashes failed to sabotage a new peace meeting on June 22 , if indeed that had been the aim , and representatives of all main parties attended , except the right-wing Conservative Party and some of its allies . |
| 12 | Evidently that had been broken off very soon after she arrived on her first station . |
| 13 | The line of thought eluded her , but she remembered something else that had been said . |