Example sentences of "be [verb] that [pers pn] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard from other prisoners ( he told Beltrami ) that a man called Ian Waddell had been boasting that he had taken part in the Ayr crime , and then , on a quite different charge , Waddell was sent to Barlinnie himself . |
| 2 | Er and after all , if all the efforts that have been made that we have discussed just at , just now , er towards getting the money back are successful , well then the compensation that had been paid would be repaid . |
| 3 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 4 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 5 | We 're saying that we 've got two of our our particular sub-patterns matching . |
| 6 | you 're , you 're , you 're saying that I 've got to do ? |
| 7 | I mean er it 's before they 're conceived that you 've got to try |
| 8 | We 've been told that we have to type it all in . |
| 9 | and someone and we 've now been told that we have to pay for it , and I |
| 10 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 11 | ‘ Now I 've been told that I 've lost my place and I 'm very disappointed . ’ |
| 12 | It had been alleged that he had kept ecstasy tablets worth between £1.1m and £1.7m in the cellar below his ground floor flat in Acrefield Road , Woolton . |
| 13 | Certainly anyone who has ever had a severe , immediate reaction to a food is likely to react in the same way if they are told that they have consumed some of the same food . |
| 14 | The question erm we are told that we have got to take into account the actions of er true to me that the er reference site , therefore , we must carry on as er . |
| 15 | We are told that we have to pay Swindon another fifty thousand if he plays . |
| 16 | By notice of appeal dated 2 January 1992 , the child appealed against the order on the grounds , inter alia , that the justices erred when they found that he was likely to suffer significant harm as a result of his absconding as no evidence had been produced that he had suffered such harm when he had absconded . |
| 17 | ‘ Many people are reporting that they have changed their eating habits . |
| 18 | Perry fixes his gaze onto Crilly 's ; I am hurt that he has forgotten me so soon . |
| 19 | Many of us are saying that we 've had enough . |
| 20 | Well yes , yes in terms it sounds mos most confusing compared with a straightforward business world but if , if , if the campaign are saying that it 's got to be this way for legal reasons they 're not prepared to accept it . |
| 21 | It will be seen that I have to arrive at figures in respect of damages in this case under a number of heads . |
| 22 | Indeed , it could be said that they had prospered . |
| 23 | It could be said that they have abandoned whole areas of their responsibility to the national museums . |
| 24 | It may be said that we have to plan for the future , and I entirely agree , but most of our thoughts can be best described as nonsense . |
| 25 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 26 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 27 | As the company was a separate legal entity , and in the particular circumstances ( through its directing mind and will ) had consented to the husband 's drawing the cheques , it could not be said that he had appropriated the company 's property . |
| 28 | It can be argued that it has played a significant — one might even say the most significant — role in producing all those patterns and distant harmonies that are being recognized as signalling the onset of the Pacific Age . |
| 29 | They were relieved to be told that they had done well , and also that these tests were not that accurate after all . |
| 30 | You will be told that it has taken place every 13 July since 1375 , and perhaps it has . |