Example sentences of "things that had been " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tosh said he did n't like some things that had been written about her in papers . |
| 2 | Things that had been yoked , harnessed , held down and held back by a power that was dissolving . |
| 3 | One of the first things that had been done when the police arrived at the house was to examine all windows and doors for signs of forcible entry . |
| 4 | None of these were things that had been known to occupy him on other mornings . |
| 5 | Which is more than you ever were with me — until , of course , that last day at the office when you took the lid off and let it all boil over — all the things that had been bugging you . ’ |
| 6 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 7 | Open opposition is strongly implied by his offer in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been said against him . |
| 8 | He also offered in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been done against him , providing that the English returned to their allegiance without treachery . |
| 9 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 10 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 12 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |