Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March the Prime Minister Winston Churchill , replying to a letter from the TUC Education Committee , gave an assurance that nothing had yet been settled and reserved some memorable prose for a concluding tribute to the value of liberal studies in adult education : |
| 2 | No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact . |
| 3 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 4 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 5 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 6 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 7 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 8 | And the one that I added in was to identify the options available to the group regarding future ownership . |
| 9 | But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all . |
| 10 | Mr Whitechurch described it : ‘ The first train that I went over was the very latest type of West Coast Joint Stock corridor , designed to run from Euston at 11.30 am to Edinburgh and Glasgow , returning from Edinburgh at 11.35 . |
| 11 | I took to listening to Wagner , but reports in magazine articles that I drank heavily are an exaggeration . |
| 12 | So every one that I brought up was sold . |
| 13 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 14 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 15 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 16 | The living creature that I had briefly been might never have existed . |
| 17 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 18 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 19 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 20 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 21 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 22 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 23 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 24 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 25 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 26 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 27 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 28 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 29 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 30 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |