Example sentences of "[that] he [vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a major speech on the opening day UN chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali rejected the cloak of ‘ non-interference ’ that he said was used by authoritarian regimes to conceal rights violations . |
| 2 | All the other experience that he devoured was put to the one obsessing activity . |
| 3 | It went to Geoffrey 's head that he 'd been cast as Mullins , the pirate . |
| 4 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 5 | He laughed , and then added that he 'd been drunk as a cork himself actually , the night before . |
| 6 | He was taken into custody for his own protection … as it was learned that he 'd been disqualified from driving at the time of the crash . |
| 7 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 8 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 9 | Daffy was shattered by the news that he 'd been replaced by Essex 's reprieved rebel tourist Neil Foster . |
| 10 | Daffy was shattered by the news that he 'd been replaced by Essex 's reprieved rebel tourist Neil Foster . |
| 11 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 12 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 13 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 14 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 15 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 16 | But from the look of his clothes it would n't seem that he 'd been jostled about much by the tide . |
| 17 | He 'll definitely be playing for the French next week and they would n't even confirm that he 'd been banned from the scum 's next 4 matches in Europe ( which ones did they have in mind ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ) . |
| 18 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 19 | The other thing that was said about him , particularly towards the end , after the U-turn on economic policy , was that he 'd been captured by his officials , and that he also , in the end , rather relished the company of the permanent secretaries more than he did his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 20 | I want to see what happened , er , it finished just where he says that he 'd been accused of something . |
| 21 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
| 22 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 23 | Indeed , it was largely because of this stance of old-fashioned industrial unionism that he had been elected in the first place . |
| 24 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
| 25 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 26 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 27 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 28 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 29 | He was quite prepared now to admit that he had been mistaken about Marie : that she was not thick and that , though she was not very articulate , she was , in her way , intelligent , kind , even sensitive . |
| 30 | Ramsay decided and declared that he had been mistaken in staying on in Berwick thus long . |