Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 2 | Something that I noticed is in the towns like Kirkwall and Stromness there 's a kind of slovenly way of speaking Orcadian where they go butter water . |
| 3 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 4 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 5 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |
| 6 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 7 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 8 | It meant at least that someone had been in the burial mound , though not necessarily recently . |
| 9 | ‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her . |
| 10 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 11 | I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself . |
| 12 | After some spirited discussion Margaret agreed with the policy but pointed out with some feeling that she had been in the chair of every meeting of the Economic Committee throughout the Falklands crisis . |
| 13 | The message read that she had been in the hotel that night ; that she had met David ; that a tape had been taken of the conversation ; that if he thought he could arrest her brother and charge him with murder , he should now try ; that , if he thought he could intern her whilst completely innocent , he should now try ; that several persons had listened to the conversation in the hotel that night and that one was an Ulster MP . |
| 14 | This was the first time in her life that she 'd been in the company of a man who could bring her out in nervous flushes , make her heartbeat race and her stomach turn all watery , just by watching her … |
| 15 | ‘ That she liked being in the wood . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 17 | Was that the ar was that the area that you felt was of the most of er benefit to you ? |
| 18 | But I think the other incredibly important thing that you said was about the number of boys here from public schools as well and I think that |
| 19 | Erm th there were some complaints about er , this is first liaison meeting that there 'd been in the county , and you know they were obviously |
| 20 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 21 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
| 22 | I knew that they had been on the point of shipping dialysis machines to Lebanon in an attempt to free Alec Collett just before the bombing of Libya . |
| 23 | Thirty MPs prefixed their names with Bo , indicating that they had been in the BNA and were now active in the PVO . |
| 24 | A four-month amnesty came into force on Oct. 13 allowing illegal non-EC immigrants to regularize their position , provided that they had been in the country for six months and were earning a living . |
| 25 | ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . ) |
| 26 | He would surprise everyone by getting a new speech right , but then show that it had been at the expense of other sections of dialogue . |
| 27 | USSR Interior Minister Boris Pugo explained that it had been at the request of a " national salvation committee " formed by the pro-Moscow Lithuanian CP on Jan. 11 , after its members were allegedly beaten up outside parliament as they protested against " anti-Soviet slander " in the media . |
| 28 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 29 | Interest and miscellaneous expenses were , however , quite a different matter , and the fact that it had been in the nature of his employment to disburse vast and unspecified amounts , as he put it , ‘ upon the simple word of the treasurer ’ , who had died in 1635 , did not help matters . |
| 30 | However , I was riveted by the speech of the hon. Member for Taunton ( Mr. Nicholson ) , who welcomed a measure that he thought was in the Queen 's Speech . |