Example sentences of "that what [pron] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In antiquity no insignia such as cup or Bible were handed to the person ordained , and the clergy did not initially wear special vestments ; they were simply instructed to see that what they wore was ‘ wholly clean ’ . |
| 2 | Her temper was caused by the fact that she had a terrible suspicion that what they said was true . |
| 3 | They conceived that what they represented was accurate : Henry V as a play genuinely celebrating the national character , the Elizabethans were imagined as believing in a stable world order . |
| 4 | They 're amazed that what they thought was a quiet little Swedish story appears round the world the next day , ’ says Mr McGovern . |
| 5 | His spies had plotted their course all the way , sending back word by a chain of messengers , until now they knew numbers and names , and were well aware that what they awaited was a national army , glittering with noble pedigrees , not all of them Scottish . |
| 6 | The buyers in this particular market were very clear that what they wanted was a small loan , for a fixed amount , over a short period , paid weekly to a collector . |
| 7 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 8 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |
| 9 | It may seem odd that what we heard was such a revelation . |
| 10 | We made it clear that what we wanted was a better social security system and not just a cheaper one . |
| 11 | So that what we did was , first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps , what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er , and then we 'll go through the others . |
| 12 | In the 19th century an anthology was made of all the surviving T'ang poetry and someone complained that what he saw was only a meagre yield from the vast harvest of its origin . |
| 13 | My informant thinks that what he saw was genuine and was certain that someone was down there , his mate in the other box was equally sure that he too saw the figure . |
| 14 | FitzRoy immediately guessed that what he saw was a new species . |
| 15 | And they then say well right , cos every time an accountant does your books at the front of your , the actual like er the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front something like these accounts have erm have been audited but only erm we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right . |
| 16 | You always felt that what he said was right . |
| 17 | Obviously Tony was under the impression that what he said was true , for there was certainly no malice intended in what he said . |
| 18 | I knew that what he said was true . |
| 19 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 20 | ‘ With every part of me , ’ he said , and his voice was rough and a little unsteady and Robyn , in that moment , knew that what he said was true . |
| 21 | I think that at the end of his life he thought that what he knew was lost for ever . |
| 22 | From the scared tone of Dyson 's voice , Bob knew that what he meant was that he thought Eddy was dead . |
| 23 | She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . |
| 24 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 25 | He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people . |
| 26 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 27 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 28 | I was suddenly aware that what she said was true . |
| 29 | I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me . |
| 30 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |