Example sentences of "that [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 3 | The relief which followed the realisation that my conduct had been ‘ only a dream ’ was always tinged , however slightly , with regret . |
| 4 | I have to conclude that my work has been a failure ’ Labour MP Clare Short . |
| 5 | I do n't appreciate the fact that my grandmother has been taken advantage of . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I learned that my wife had been released but had very little money to live on . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I found that my house had been used as a barracks , everything we possessed has been destroyed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 20 | I answered in Italian that my father had been an officer in the Austrian army and that he spoke good German . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is an interesting plan and I am delighted that my Department has been able to offer a grant to help it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 've heard that my brother has been wasting his magic . |
| 27 | I I feel that my brother has been extremely badly treated . |
| 28 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 29 | But suddenly realised , ‘ You got Lubor to ring and say that my car had been delivered here ! ’ |
| 30 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |