Example sentences of "[pron] had been a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes . |
| 2 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |
| 3 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |
| 4 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
| 5 | There had been a time in the seventh century when Anglo-Saxon kings with many men 's death on their consciences went to Rome to die in penitential garb . |
| 6 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 7 | There had been a time when he had been with the then desired Jenny in the back of a car on the moor at Goathland . |
| 8 | There had been a time when she had stared from Crowe 's knee , before Crowe 's study fire , out at Alexander on the Long Royston terrace . |
| 9 | There had been a time when Julius Landor could reduce her to a whimpering wreck , when his slow-burning but frightening temper roused itself to life . |
| 10 | There had been a time when she had thought of going with Roman and dreamed of dancing held tightly in his arms , but now she doubted she would go at all . |
| 11 | But there had been a time , early in the nineteenth century , in Shelley 's day , where the head and the heart had stood a chance of marching forward together . |
| 12 | There had been a time when , like everyone else at the school , she had said she wanted to be a professional dancer , or an actress , or anything else that was exciting and totally different from working in a bank or being a dairy farmer 's wife . |