Example sentences of "[art] question that had been " in BNC.

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1 She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life .
2 It was Michael who asked the question that had been troubling them all .
3 Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time .
4 The turnout , across the Soviet Union as a whole , was 80 per cent , and of those who voted , 76.4 per cent declared in favour of the question that had been asked of them .
5 Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’
6 It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room .
7 She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed .
8 Resisting the temptation to ask for answers to some of the questions that had been plaguing her , Luce shook her head .
9 Scott LJ ( with whom Butler-Sloss and Purchas LJJ agreed ) said that the appeal raised a question that had been before the court on a number of occasions in the past 10 years .
10 Patrick had seen the chance to ask a question that had been on his mind a long time .
11 While Luce added a liberal amount of sugar and cream to her coffee a question that had been submerged in her mind suddenly resurfaced , and she queried , ‘ How did you know where I was staying ? ’
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