Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] that had [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jones collaboration in part grew out of such a quest , though there were aspects of their work that had been anticipated in India long before , unrecorded and so unknown to them . |
| 2 | All the points of her body that had been pressed against him were suddenly touched with fingers of ice . |
| 3 | She tried to tell herself it was her pride that had been damaged , but something raw and bleeding inside told a different story . |
| 4 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 5 | However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings . |
| 6 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |
| 7 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 8 | It was quite literally his vitality that had been sapped by Montaine 's death , leaving his talent and his intelligence in irons without it . |
| 9 | He thought of his dam that had been to make a lake . |
| 10 | He blushed guiltily , but the small part of his brain that had been vaguely monitoring the discussion alerted him to the fact that he had been asked a question by the executive producer . |
| 11 | Reinhard Heydrich wiped the portion of his face that had been covered by his mask . |
| 12 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |