Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] that [pers pn] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 2 | About six months ago , we mutually decided that it was something we could do without . |
| 3 | I mean lunch time we were hearing how , because they stood up for what was right , it was over the killing of soldiers and that , this man job and actually he more or less said that he was something wrong with his head did n't he ? |
| 4 | He was a man in torment who finally decided that he was what he did , and not what anyone said he was . |
| 5 | I had n't known him when he had left for Britain , but when I saw him I somehow knew that he was my father . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he also clearly implied that it was none of the legate 's business . |
| 7 | She also knew that it was her priority to get her father , physically impaired since his stroke , down the aisle . |
| 8 | I distinctly said that it was I who required the tuition . |
| 9 | Freed also said that it was he rather than Duna , who had taken a 90% stake in Hungary 's largest circulation English-language newspaper , Budapest Week . |
| 10 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |
| 11 | So so so I say that first because we have in the past had people who felt worried by this attitude , they felt you know that they really they were people who perhaps had a background in the National Trust and who really felt that it was their job to say , oh no do n't touch that . |
| 12 | He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents . |
| 13 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 14 | Perhaps she too thought that it was my fault , that I enjoyed it , that I was as bad as he was , or even worse . ’ |