Example sentences of "[noun] that my [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to the conclusion that my hunch had been right , but that the ditches must have been dug in mid-Victorian times and the earth piled on the track , putting all the older items out of detecting range . |
| 2 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 3 | I answered in Italian that my father had been an officer in the Austrian army and that he spoke good German . |
| 4 | The relief which followed the realisation that my conduct had been ‘ only a dream ’ was always tinged , however slightly , with regret . |
| 5 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 6 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 7 | I do n't appreciate the fact that my grandmother has been taken advantage of . ’ |