Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that I saw was seen also by Hugh Beringar , but after what has come to light this morning these details fall into place . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 4 | Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’ |
| 5 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 6 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 10 | I was flattered that I 'd been chosen , but at the same time pretty scared . |
| 11 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 12 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 14 | I also explained to him myself that I had been abused by my father , who was a doctor , and that I did not wish to be examined by a man . |
| 15 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 16 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 17 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 18 | Typical of the man , Ashe seemed more concerned about my welfare , hearing that I had been beaten up outside the stadium by a stick wielding Army officer , than his own . |
| 19 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 20 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 21 | He would assume that I had been detained scrubbing the floors of the kitchens at Grindlewood Park . |
| 22 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |
| 23 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 24 | IN EXTRACTS from my forthcoming book , A Cuckoo in the Bodyline Nest , published in the May and June issues of WCM , I wrote that I had been born in Marathon Avenue , Darling Point , Sydney , next door to Gubby Allen . |
| 25 | And before meeting him , I wandered about the Left Bank reminding myself that I had been prescribed the city of love to feast my senses . |
| 26 | Afterwards I had no sense that I had been forgiven , but I had done what I was called upon to do and there it must rest . |
| 27 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 28 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 29 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 30 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |