Example sentences of "be [vb pp] that [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Indeed , it could be said that they had prospered . |
| 5 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were relieved to be told that they had done well , and also that these tests were not that accurate after all . |
| 9 | So as soon as I could get away I went to your hotel , only to be told that you had left shortly after your colleagues . ’ |
| 10 | ( It will be remembered that he had studied drama at McGill , and the plays of Britain 's ‘ angry young men ’ had made waves in Canada . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Prof. Francis ’ was tolerated because he was so amiable ; he had let it be known that he had taught piano in an unnamed music conservatory somewhere , hence the professorship . |
| 12 | He would also have known that Palmerston , having let it be known that he had asked Scott to submit a new design , was very unlikely to change his mind , and it was perhaps to give the appearance of some purpose to the delegation that he and Tite made their request for another competition . |
| 13 | Long before Neil Kinnock let it be known that he had let his membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament lapse , the Labour Party and CND had been growing apart . |
| 14 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
| 15 | But it can not be denied that they had neglected their fixed charities . |
| 16 | I had to go upstairs and take the uniform off to brush it , as otherwise it would have been deduced that I had sat in the chair of a gentleman . |
| 17 | Clearly , there is an element of political value judgment in such decisions : in 1921 a judge held that reasonable citizens would not think less of a trade unionist if it were claimed that he had worked during a strike : some juries might reach a different decision today . |
| 18 | Despite Hekmatyar 's public avowal that his war was with the Uzbek militia and not with other mujaheddin groups , analysts were agreed that he had stepped up the military pressure against the government to prevent Rabbani from consolidating his position and marginalizing the Hezb-i-Islami . |
| 19 | Aszal refused to leave her until , he says , at 1 a.m. they were told that she had to go to a detention centre where men were not allowed . |
| 20 | But he ca n't repress a shudder as he recalls the day he learned of his wife 's death , at first being told that she had drowned . |
| 21 | Suddenly she remembered being told that he had lost an only daughter , killed by a hit-and-run driver , and she wished the words unsaid . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's great ’ said a delighted Derek Porter , from HFD , Culcheth , on being told that he had won the Gazette competition for January , a £50 perfume voucher courtesy of Hampson 's Perfumerie , Leigh . |
| 23 | On being informed that he had called upon her husband , she said coldly ‘ Dr Heatherton is out . |
| 24 | After three quarters of an hour the advocates were informed that they had decided to defer any statement of their reasons and their conclusion as to the appropriate orders for a period of approximately 10 days until 3 February 1992 . |
| 25 | A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman . |
| 26 | On 17 September Christie 's announced that it had cut its interim payment down to 0.5p compared with 2.3p in the first half of last year . |
| 27 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 28 | It was claimed that he had confessed to spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency , but the US authorities had always denied that he had any official connections . |
| 29 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |
| 30 | It was claimed that he had purchased the Surrey manor of Woodmansterne from its tenant while litigation about the manor was pending in the Common Bench before him and his colleagues . |