Example sentences of "[that] all [pos pn] [noun] had be " in BNC.

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1 The Orkney parents were left so uninformed , they believed that all their rights had been removed .
2 When parliament heard the news of Crécy the commons ‘ thanked God for the great victory He had given their king and they said that all their money had been well spent ’ .
3 It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain .
4 She then said she had somehow ‘ known ’ it would happen , that all her fears had been justified — instead of realising that her terror had pulled it into her life .
5 Jubert also recalls the man in his regiment who , returning from the front , was overjoyed to find his house on the outskirts of Verdun still intact ; but , on discovering that all its contents had been methodically plundered , he simply burst into laughter .
6 Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm .
7 Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator .
8 The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time .
9 They charged Dad with obstructing the police , and claimed that all our injuries had been sustained in the struggle .
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