Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 2 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 3 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 4 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 5 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 6 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 7 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 8 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 9 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 10 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 11 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 12 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 13 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 14 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 15 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 16 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 17 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 18 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 19 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 20 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 21 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 22 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 23 | The 2nd Battalion , Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , was then the infantry battalion in the ACE Mobile Force , and had been in that role since May 1987 . |
| 24 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 25 | All I had was in that crate , its death |
| 26 | ‘ Best investment I ever made was in that place . |