Example sentences of "that had [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had been harmless fun . |
| 2 | But that had been pure chance . |
| 3 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 4 | But that had been thirty years before , and the British were still there . |
| 5 | But that had been sixteen months ago and she was still here . |
| 6 | Now that had been one hell of a scrap . |
| 7 | That had been one month before . |
| 8 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 9 | That had been old Throgmorton 's idea . |
| 10 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 11 | That had been last night . |
| 12 | But that had been last month . |
| 13 | That had been some encounter ! she admitted as , regaining the sanctuary of the street , she drew in a deep breath of refreshing air before turning into the road which she remembered from her map-reading would lead her into a series of narrow streets closed to traffic , and known familiarly to the local inhabitants as Strøget . |