Example sentences of "and [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 2 | and that had been so cruelly denied to Isaac by Jacob himself in his youth . |
| 3 | Only once had he returned after they all left and that had been bad enough , like a dream — no , like stepping into the set and scenario of some frightening film , a Hitchcock movie perhaps . |
| 4 | At hockey there was a vacancy for the goalkeeper and that had been my position in the school team . |
| 5 | He found that Christians had stood firmly by their faith and practice ; only one family had lapsed , and that had been very weak , even in the best of times . |
| 6 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 7 | It is claimed that no society can maintain high fertility in the face of two generations of mass education , and that had been achieved in much of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century ( Caldwell 1982 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd never had any trouble getting pregnant , ’ she says , ‘ And that had been my downfall in a way . |
| 9 | The only appointment of significance which he had made himself was that of Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor , and that had been done only two days before the beginning of his holiday . |
| 10 | He had been in hospital many years before to have his appendix removed and that had been an uneventful procedure . |
| 11 | And it was done like this , this was done at a period when this church was changing from a Roman Catholic church The the window the original glass in this was a massive stained glass window of the crucifixion , and that had been put there in the fifteenth century by a Lord Mayor of York who was very wealthy and very religious and he wanted to show how wealthy and religious he was by pu er donating this window to the church . |
| 12 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 13 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
| 14 | I had wished Nour dead because he would not stay with me , and that had been a palimpsest of desire . |
| 15 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 16 | Appeal was the only corrective for a mistake by a High Court judge and that had been removed by statute . |
| 17 | Only one train crossed the near-distant bridge at this hour and that had been a night train going nowhere , its carriages empty and its windows dark . |
| 18 | That always used to be a fortnight to three weeks to unload a ship but this one ship , that was called , I remember that was called the lovely ship and that had been bombed , that had a bomb drop right on the . |
| 19 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 20 | At other times — especially in the beginning — he had succeeded in arousing a desire in her that matched his own , and that had been almost as frightening . |
| 21 | And that had been it . |
| 22 | And that had been that . |
| 23 | Each respondent was asked to select a project of which he had detailed knowledge and that had been completed within the previous two years . |
| 24 | There had been some pedals and a lever and the steering wheel , and that had been about it . |
| 25 | In fact , I had n't lived south of the river for nearly five years and that had been further over in Southwark until a small matter of an exploding terrace house had persuaded me to go flat-hunting . |
| 26 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 27 | There had been only one obvious course of action — and that had been to raise the necessary sums by selling the family estate . |
| 28 | Only once had he said he loved her , and that had been in extreme circumstances . |
| 29 | Mr O'Donnell said McPherson had got a rope out of the car boot and that had been attached to a strap round his neck . |