Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [pron] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Frankie that he had been up there , locked in the smallest of the attic rooms , for a long time . |
| 2 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 3 | Rain said : ‘ You were told by Edouard that I had been tricked into going to the museum . |
| 4 | News came in March that he had been captured and probably killed during the retreat from Teruel . |
| 5 | It was reported on TV-AM that there had been forty arrests as a result of the riot , but it was not known if any charges would be brought . |
| 6 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 7 | Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November . |
| 8 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 9 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 10 | A month ago , then , when Mr. James Russell died , the word was passed to John Russell through Mr. Mendez that he had been left Russell 's place outside Contention . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 13 | Bernard went into hiding and was only heard of again when news reached the Israeli Mossad that he had been assassinated in a car-bomb attack in Beirut . |
| 14 | I understand from Simon that you had been in touch regarding your proposal . |
| 15 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 16 | King Hussein , who had resisted calls from Moslem Brotherhood members of parliament and leftists to boycott the conference , said in an emotional speech on Oct. 12 at a conference of 2,500 elected officials in Amman that he had been assured by the USA that it would " do its utmost " to see that a transitional period of Palestinian " autonomy " in the occupied territories would be negotiated within a year of the conference opening , and announced Jordan 's unconditional acceptance of US terms for the proposed Middle East peace conference . |
| 17 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 18 | He also told O'Boyle that he had been ‘ checked out ’ with the government computer system to see if he was reputable enough to join the group . |
| 19 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
| 20 | He told Ballater that someone had been breaking in . |
| 21 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 22 | Several of them showed signs of injury , leading to claims in the US and the UK that they had been coerced into making their statements . |
| 23 | It was clear to Jordan that they had been betrayed . |
| 24 | She wanted to prove to Madame Gloriana that she had been wrong — to let her see how happy she was . |
| 25 | It would be bad psychology to tell Lou that she had been shown them by the police . |
| 26 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |
| 27 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 28 | However , in the autumn of 1938 , they informed Jacques that they had been asked not to organise any Chapter III courses in existing , or former , university extension centres , but both had refused to accept such limitation on their activities . |
| 29 | Hon W.L. MacKenzie King , Prime Minister of Canada , admitted shyly to Edna Jacques that he had been an ardent fan for over 20 years , and Mrs Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist , said to her ‘ You have the gift , Edna dear , to ring bells in the hearts of the people ’ . |
| 30 | The President was forced to admit on 17 April that there had been " major developments in the case " and that all previous White House statements were " inoperative " . |