Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of October , Kathy , who had again been invited for supper , arrived at Clare 's apartment to find that nothing had been cooked . |
| 2 | It became clear that nothing had been gained by removing the prince , especially as another ruler had now to be found . |
| 3 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 4 | He appealed for leniency on the grounds that nothing had been touched . |
| 5 | Yet I discovered that nothing had been disturbed . ’ |
| 6 | There had been no word from Steve or Maria Lisa and though there was no time element concerned with this contract she was still a little worried that nothing had been accomplished with the airlines and tourist board in Palma . |
| 7 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 8 | He wanted to make certain for himself that nothing had been overlooked . |
| 9 | He replied that nothing had been put forward concerning a trust . |
| 10 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 11 | The Poles took the matter seriously , but the League of Nations , saying that no-one had been hurt and perhaps the revolver had not been loaded , took no action . |
| 12 | All that I saw was seen also by Hugh Beringar , but after what has come to light this morning these details fall into place . ’ |
| 13 | It was also clearly evident , in the groups that I saw being taught , as well as from my own personal experience , that the GCSE has improved children 's motivation . |
| 14 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 15 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 16 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 17 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 18 | Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’ |
| 19 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 20 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 21 | Afterwards , I crawled backstage to visit Michael Crawford , forgetting that I 'd been wearing Clinique 's face-bronzer for that glowing , outdoor , tanned look we all know and simulate . |
| 22 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 23 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 24 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 25 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 26 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 27 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 28 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 29 | Had been appalled to discover , through the industry grapevine , that I 'd been allowed to continue with the assignment after taking such a beating from ben Issachar . |
| 30 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |