Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel mentioned that his father had been a teacher in Zambia , and then adopting a humorous intonation , as if to cover himself , he added that some ‘ of these chappies were none too bright ’ . |
| 2 | You mentioned that your luggage had been searched and someone had come into your room during the night and looked in your bag ? ’ |
| 3 | They traced the car that was seen on the A12 and found that its number had been noted by a patrol car near Saffron Walden on the day the bomb was planted on Bryan Thomson . |
| 4 | Having investigated , she found that her luggage had been unpacked , her night-wear and toilet things put in their appropriate places , and her clothes hung neatly in the walk-in wardrobe . |
| 5 | When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery . |
| 6 | Riven examined his leg and found that his boot had been ripped open like paper , but that his calf was only scratched . |
| 7 | When he emerged he found that his donkey had been translated like Bottom — but up aloft . |
| 8 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 9 | I found that my house had been used as a barracks , everything we possessed has been destroyed . |
| 10 | She reported that her supper had been a few broad beans swimming in oil , that the bread was stale and that she had been put under a woman who did n't know starch from steam . |
| 11 | Many practices realised that their marketing had been deficient or that they needed to know more about trends and opportunities . |
| 12 | And the more I thought , the more I realised that his bonhomie had been superficial . |
| 13 | When they reached the market place , he realised that his father had been right : there were nowhere near as many workers as there had been in previous Novembers . |
| 14 | Then the Bank revealed that its governor had been given a 17% salary rise last year . |
| 15 | When working for Reuters , a colleague revealed that their boss had been impressed by his hobby . |
| 16 | The faculty argued that her treatment had been exactly the same as that of any other applicant , regardless of his or her race or colour , who sought to join the bar . |
| 17 | According to press reports Karami believed that his government had been penalized by the West for its close links with Syria and for its strong commitment at the Middle East peace talks to an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon . |
| 18 | These are judges who accept ‘ no grovelling on the part of prisoners ’ , even those who play on having a relative in the RUC ( and we did come across a policeman who believed that his brother had been treated leniently in court as a result of this connection with the force ) . |
| 19 | The Protestant marriage did n't reconcile his father , who believed that his son had been caught and was marrying because he had some misplaced sense of honour . |
| 20 | Since there are only two lines the reader takes special notice of their meaning and the author can leave his sonnet assured that his message has been received . |
| 21 | It seemed that her brother had been right after all when he warned her that the Decoy Lodge was haunted . |
| 22 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 23 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 24 | He stated that his purpose had been ‘ to ascertain the character and function of Mind as the organising principle in Evolution . |
| 25 | Mr Parfitt 's brother , Phil , confirmed that his wife had been worried by cancer scares — but had been given the all-clear . |
| 26 | Raymond Starr , Director of Child Care and Family Services , confirmed that his agency had been called in because Orkney Islands Council did not have the resources to deal with a case of this kind . |
| 27 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 28 | When the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) first screened the videotape of the Dec. 14 demonstration on state television in June [ see p. 37544 ] , Mladenov denounced it as a " slanderous montage " , but experts ruled it authentic on July 4 , whereupon Mladenov in a nationwide broadcast declared that his remark had been taken out of context , and that he should be judged by deeds not words . |
| 29 | She claimed that their action had been ill-considered and ironic coming so soon after the launch of their customer service charter . |
| 30 | Turkey claimed that its action had been provoked by an escalation of Kurdish attacks on the armed forces in the south-east of the country . |