Example sentences of "[indef pn] that had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne touched his dead white face , and felt nothing that had been alive . |
| 2 | Either way , everything that had been beginning was now ending , ebbing away without hope . |
| 3 | In his reply , Mr Lamont ignored everything that had been said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So far as he knew , everything that had been transcribed had been lodged with Jackson 's , in copy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Everything that had been lost he was able to restore it to Ruth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Benny and Eve watched fascinated , as he shook his head sorrowfully and seemed to agree with something that had been said to him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was hardly going to be any great wrench to part with something that had been picked up so casually . |
| 17 | There was no shadow , but the drifting tatters of smoke from something that had been burning were still swirling in the wind and rain . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Surely this was something that had been threatening for years ? |
| 20 | ( v ) took a personal or financial responsibility for something that had been done by the addict in your life . |
| 21 | Probably something that had been generally agreed over the remains of the first person that had dared to call him Rosie . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The child who opened the door to him was the one that had been out in the fields with his father . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He favoured less one that had been taken ten years before in which his bowler hat and suit are typical of a provincial businessman . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The salute was repeated , different from the old Nazi one that had been discredited when Germany lost the last war . |
| 30 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |