Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh goodness knows , I mean that them gates have been renewed and I remember them being renewed , these gates what they got there now . |
| 2 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |
| 3 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 4 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 5 | The relief which followed the realisation that my conduct had been ‘ only a dream ’ was always tinged , however slightly , with regret . |
| 6 | I have to conclude that my work has been a failure ’ Labour MP Clare Short . |
| 7 | I do n't appreciate the fact that my grandmother has been taken advantage of . ’ |
| 8 | At the same time I knew that my marriage had been a facade and in a way , by leaving , I felt I was doing the only honourable thing . |
| 9 | Well I have no evidence from either of them , you know , er that er they are slamming the door on my initiative , other than the statement that was issued which if you read it , there 's very little in it that you can object to , or that I could object to , which commits them , the two governments to an initiative , and indeed that 's what er the last statement that Mr Adams and I issued asked them to do , the only er they also in in their statements say that my actions have been both courageous and imaginative |
| 10 | I appreciated the very great honour of being asked — Coronation opera and all that — but I knew that my voice had been punished mercilessly during the war and I had , indeed , decided to retire from the opera stage . |
| 11 | I learned that my wife had been released but had very little money to live on . |
| 12 | I had not before realised that my canoe had been following me but I soon felt it as the point hit my back and then went down underneath me , dragging me down and sandwiching me between the canoe and the tree . |
| 13 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 14 | I came to the conclusion that my hunch had been right , but that the ditches must have been dug in mid-Victorian times and the earth piled on the track , putting all the older items out of detecting range . |
| 15 | I found that my house had been used as a barracks , everything we possessed has been destroyed . |
| 16 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 17 | Mr. Sutton was a nice old gentleman — looked distinguished with his white hair and small white beard , a stickler for accuracy and forever telling me that my father had been one of his pupils . |
| 18 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 19 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 20 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 21 | Er , in so far that my father had been dismissed from the er from the coal mining industry , er before just before nineteen twenty six , and he was officially unemployed . |
| 22 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 23 | I answered in Italian that my father had been an officer in the Austrian army and that he spoke good German . |
| 24 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 25 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 26 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 27 | This is an interesting plan and I am delighted that my Department has been able to offer a grant to help it . |
| 28 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 29 | No , the fact is that my trustees have been putting the screws on . |
| 30 | That my advisors had been bribed … |