Example sentences of "that she [verb] be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 2 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 3 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 4 | On the eve of her seventh birthday , Nanny told Artemis that she had been invited downstairs that very afternoon to take tea with her father . |
| 5 | My billetor Mrs Webster told me that she had been employed there before her marriage and ‘ printed registered envelopes in two sizes for ten years , and liked the work ’ . |
| 6 | Thérèse knew that she had been sent away from her parents at the age of two months , to be fed by Rose , that she had lived with Rose for sixteen months . |
| 7 | Francesca 's much publicized affair with Senator Michael O'Brien was the reason that she had been sent home rather early from a tour of duty in the Embassy in Washington , over a year previously , just before he had met her in London . |
| 8 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 9 | As she hunted for a worn pair of leather gloves in the pocket of her pelisse , she did not appear to notice that she had been pulled closely in to the gentleman for a few brief seconds . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , who owns this place ? ’ she went on , trying to cover up the fact that she had been thrown rather off balance by that last challenge . |
| 11 | Chrissie can not deny that she took the items , but she might well argue that she thought Fred had the authority to let her have them , and unless we can show that she had been told otherwise our prosecution might well fail , especially since the law traditionally recognizes that ‘ perks ’ are a feature of the catering industry . |
| 12 | It was confirmed yesterday that she has been nominated as best actress for her part in the film Howards End . |