Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him that I had heard he was involved in a recording project with Mo Foster . |
| 2 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 3 | One thing that I did tell her was that if I ever got arrested she would not be involved . |
| 4 | Suddenly she realized that she had forgotten she was relying totally on speed speechreading . |
| 5 | Mrs. Steed 's evidence was not , however , that she had thought she was signing a document of some different character from that which in fact she had signed . |
| 6 | No , I I think it was somebody I was talking to from Bretford who said that she 'd gone she was looking after the |
| 7 | ‘ I invited you because your mother told me that you 'd realised there were more things in life than work — at long last , ’ Simon said pithily , ‘ and were in the market for some socialising . ’ |
| 8 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 9 | I do n't think we need to type an enquiry , I think that the people who realise that , the fact that you had got there is meant to indicate to you that name of the firm was Mallard , and therefore by using by using Mallards , sausage skins , they 're expecting you to use apostrophe s . |
| 10 | He was mad about it — he absolutely loved it — it was then that we began to realise there was something in David . ’ |
| 11 | He sometimes believed that whoever had invented it was insane . |
| 12 | And it was n't until I got back that they 'd said he was doing asymptotes . |
| 13 | It was n't until a physiotherapist found a vertical tear in the hamstring that they had to admit I was injured and that there was nothing wrong with my motivation . |
| 14 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 15 | Only now that it had happened it was n't in the least funny . |
| 16 | Busacher was so riveted by the bizarre sight that he failed to see what was happening with Georg and Suzi . |
| 17 | The room that he 'd given her was smaller than his own , but she got a bigger wardrobe . |
| 18 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 19 | Now , in Rome , Frank turned to Mac and reminded him , in front of me , that he had said I was responsible for messing up the change-over . |
| 20 | However , it seemed from his more relaxed air that he had accepted she was innocent of being involved in any plot devised by the beautiful and desirable Lotta — whoever she might be ! |
| 21 | Embarrassed , now that he had noticed what was happening , Dyson removed his hand from his jacket pocket and slipped it inconspicuously behind his back . |
| 22 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 23 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 24 | A French aid worker returned from South Africa telling the Catholic agency who had sponsored our film that he had heard she was dead . |
| 25 | Carrington was lying on his bunk , fully clothed , and he told himself afterwards that he had known she was outside his cabin before she touched the handle . |
| 26 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 27 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |