Example sentences of "[that] had been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or no , she thought , no — for that last , golden day at the girls ' preparatory school , which had coincided with her fifty-first birthday , that had been a joy such as she had never dared to hope for , a once-in-a-lifetime joy . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a real medieval castle , that had been a ruin for years , and has now been modernized into a house . |
| 3 | Most of the beeches that had been a feature of Woodbrook had been felled . |
| 4 | The New Economic Policy , or NEP , was obviously a reversal of the naturalisation of economics that had been a fact during the period of ‘ war communism ’ , and which Bukharin had lauded in The Economics . |
| 5 | God , that had been a powerful shit . |
| 6 | It was the combination of the carrier bag and the boots and the voluminous purple cloak that had been a present from Laura that attracted the attention of the man at the first-floor windows of Loxford Old Rectory , the man who had decided to buy it . |
| 7 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 8 | I had wished Nour dead because he would not stay with me , and that had been a palimpsest of desire . |
| 9 | She lived in a house down the street at Brampton , a house that had been a pub ; and the name of it was The Case is Altered . |
| 10 | She sewed by hand when necessary ; otherwise she whirred the handle of an ancient sewing-machine , that had been a wedding-present to her mother long before . |
| 11 | Only one train crossed the near-distant bridge at this hour and that had been a night train going nowhere , its carriages empty and its windows dark . |
| 12 | Lyddy had laid out the pearl grey coat and skirt that had been a present from Aunt Emily and a fur coat Alexandra had never seen before , heavy and glossy . |
| 13 | I chewed betel with the barefoot skipper in his wheel-house until , as the old tub began to roll in the outside channel , I realised that had been a mistake . |
| 14 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 15 | He smiled as if he knew that had been a struggle to get out but he did n't make it more difficult for her . |
| 16 | This was interesting general confirmation that the element of ‘ serious , content that had been an important part of the deceased Daily Herald and News Chronicle was no longer something the non-quality reader was prepared to pay for in a daily paper . |
| 17 | He had been in hospital many years before to have his appendix removed and that had been an uneventful procedure . |
| 18 | She felt lousy , drained by the swings of emotions that had been an integral part of these last — what was it , just eight hours ? |
| 19 | The large oval locket that had been an eighteenth-birthday present from her aunt , a gold bracelet , a pair of drop earrings and — she breathed a sigh of relief — her mother 's clip were still in the sandalwood box her parents had given her . |