Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason that he ruled out was the argument , derived from earlier cases , that fights in public should be prohibited because they tend to create disorder . |
| 2 | He , that he 's now a Director of this Ipswich Buses and I do n't think you can get a better man to do it because he is heart and soul in transport , he , the things that he brought in , the different innovations that he brought in were good , I mean he brought in , he brought in all this erm operated vaults and all that sort of thing and all this electronic gear that they are working now . |
| 3 | He was n't about to tell the Yank that he 'd also been duped , that he 'd sat on the information for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 4 | As he began another banquet in Japan , President Bush said he was fine , after his collapse yesterday , and that he 'd just been suffering from a flu bug . |
| 5 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 6 | He was a small man , bald and beady-eyed and turkey-necked , and only in retrospect could she see that he 'd probably been something of a mental case as well . |
| 7 | Glancing at the clock on the wall now , Rory realised to her amazement that he 'd only been in the farmhouse for three hours . |
| 8 | Damn it , he had n't meant to betray that he 'd never been able to forget that afternoon , and the sweet innocence that had touched something very deep within him . |
| 9 | Yeah well I thought they said in one of the papers that he 'd never been registered anywhere . |
| 10 | Ross was obviously still the same hard , tough personality that he 'd always been — never giving an inch in an argument , or showing any trace of the ordinary human weaknesses which affected everyone else . |
| 11 | It was n't anything that he had n't been told before , particularly by Dr Goode , and yet , it seemed that Ron , at this particular point , was psychologically prepared to hear the information in a way that he had not been before . |
| 12 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 13 | Tom picked him up , secretly delighted that he had n't been deserted in affection . |
| 14 | He needed to feel that he had n't been rejected . |
| 15 | The following day she had been able to tell him that he had n't been there , and had demanded the truth . |
| 16 | At the time he had assumed that she had simply contacted the address on some pretext and discovered that he had n't been there , but it was only later , when the argument had blown over , that he remembered that the address he had given his mother had been vacant . |
| 17 | He said that he had n't been treated ‘ badly ’ , but had , like Jenco and Jacobsen , been chained by one or both ankles for most of the time . |
| 18 | When the pain lanced into his back , the shock of it made him cry out loud … and he knew that he had n't been dreaming . |
| 19 | Now angry frustration replaced satisfaction , and she experienced a little spurt of apprehension amid the bleak realisation that he had n't been speaking out of generosity after all . |
| 20 | Mr Braithwaite wrote to Douglas saying that he had n't been contacted since February . |
| 21 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 22 | Which made me think of Springsteen and the fact that he had n't been fed for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 23 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 24 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 25 | Eventually a senior official arrived for talks with the police , somewhat annoyed that he had n't been told of the attempt to list the building . |
| 26 | Quite apart from her father 's permanent state of confusion and memory disorder , it seemed that he had also been possibly guilty of embezzlement . |
| 27 | I gathered from Anthony ( whom I saw later on Thursday ) that he had neither been asked for his advice nor had volunteered it . |
| 28 | Among them were those who were convinced that he had secretly been in league with the employers . |
| 29 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 30 | One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges . |