Example sentences of "that [vb past] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 2 | Emily had taken her revenge swiftly , severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans . |
| 3 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 4 | His father 's four mahogany filing-cabinets from Primrose Cottage were there , in pairs against two walls , between glass-fronted bookcases that had always been in the room . |
| 5 | There was a book that had always been in Primrose Cottage , a thick book with a torn green dust-jacket . |
| 6 | For somebody that had never been in sales before you remember a lot from the course |