Example sentences of "discover that [pers pn] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent press coverage was given to a newly married couple , both aged 85 , who arrived at their hotel to discover that they had been allocated twin beds . |
| 2 | He was referring to print-outs that had enabled the US Congress to discover that he had been secretly bombing Cambodia . |
| 3 | Travers soon discovers that he has been deceived again , and sets off once more to retrieve his property . |
| 4 | If she discovers that I 've been here , I 'll be killed . ’ |
| 5 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 6 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 7 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 8 | It was then that I discovered that they had been keeping our group under surveillance and noting down the registration numbers of cars parked outside the meeting place . |
| 9 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 10 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |
| 11 | He obtained a sample of the mould from Fleming , and discovered that it had been incorrectly identified . |
| 12 | Ann Upton the returning officer for the East Hampshire constituency told the Herald on Thursday that the ballot box had been taken out of the small office and made freely accessible to voters — meanwhile our photographer discovered that it had been simply relocated in the forest . |
| 13 | On Saturday the owner of another shed at the caravan park discovered that it had been entered and a fishing rod and other fishing equipment , worth £120 , was taken . |
| 14 | The property in the car was later put into a van and found by the police who discovered that it had been stolen in the burglary . |
| 15 | He ordered the tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadear to be well preserved , and he was infuriated when he later discovered that it had been vandalized . |
| 16 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 17 | He now discovered that he had been wounded in the elbow , and was taken to hospital where a piece of bullet casing was removed . |
| 18 | Other shock cases include Hector MacNeal , an underwriter from London , who discovered that he had been accidentally withdrawing cash from someone else 's account . |
| 19 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 20 | We discovered that he had been invited to stay at Wuthering Heights , by Hindley . |
| 21 | Years later I discovered that he had been a talented musician , yet he never revealed this , not even to music-loving boys in his house . |
| 22 | If it was not until later that the accused discovered that he had been overpaid it is suggested that the money no longer belongs to another because ownership of it passes on payment . |
| 23 | Then , all of a sudden , he did n't come into the office any more and we discovered that he had been recruited by the Moonies over there . |
| 24 | Place the text block back onto the page and you will discover that it has been converted into a graphic which can be stretched and distorted as much as you want . |
| 25 | Only when they moved out and the lease was surrendered did Vaughan discover that he had been a victim of Minton 's generosity and had been paying only half his fair share . |
| 26 | This Act has been used successfully by motorists , who have discovered that they had been deceived about the previous mileage covered by a second-hand car . |
| 27 | It does not cover simply keeping goods after the accused has discovered that they have been stolen : Broom v Crowther ( 1984 ) 148 JP 592 . |
| 28 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 29 | And discovering that they have been told lies all their lives . |
| 30 | On the eve of a second major exhibition of his work at the Tate Gallery ( 17 June-6 September ) , curated , once again , by Richard Morphet and devoted , on this occasion , to his oil paintings , Hamilton spoke to Roger Bevan of his career , his relationship with dealers , the continuing attraction of television , his declining interest in America and his delight in discovering that he had been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists and students . |