Example sentences of "that he [verb] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 2 | How could the English boy go on living now that he 'd been found out ? |
| 3 | Sure enough , within a day or two of this regrettable difference of opinion between the two physicians word went round the garrison that he had been seen up and about again . |
| 4 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 5 | It alleged that he had been fitted out with a secret transmitter on one of his missions to Lebanon , to pinpoint the exact location of the hostages and kidnappers . |
| 6 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 7 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 8 | He said that he had been knocked down by the labour master ( who was present ) . |
| 9 | Mellor claimed that he had been driven out of office by the tabloid press , which had pursued him since the discovery in July of his extramarital affair with an actress , Antonia de Sancha . |
| 10 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 11 | Aware that he had been taken on by the college as part of a programme of reform , Minton told Edie Lamont : ‘ They have inaugurated a drive to bring it in line with what they call Contemporary Trends . |
| 12 | He knew that he had been brought down specially to hear that , but it seemed to have nothing to do with him . |
| 13 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 14 | Filshin claimed that he had been set up , and announced that he was resigning in protest at an " anti-democratic campaign " being waged by the KGB and " central Soviet structures " to discredit the Russian Federation government . |
| 15 | It reminded her too strongly for her own good that he had been doled out far too much fatal charm . |
| 16 | The former Vice-President , A. K. M. Nurul Islam , protested at the summary manner of his dismissal on Aug. 13 ( see p. 36852 ) , while M. A. Matin resigned on the same day as Deputy Prime Minister and deputy parliamentary leader claiming that he had been passed over in promotion to the post of Prime Minister . |
| 17 | On Nov. 22 a spokesman for the exiled Iraqi New Ummah Party claimed that he had been executed along with seven other officers for having attempted to depose Saddam Hussein . |
| 18 | Radio Pakistan quoted Khan as saying on Feb. 8 that he had been quoted out of context . |
| 19 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 20 | It appeared that he had been thrown out bodily from a pub in Kemp Town called the ‘ Hedgehog and Hogshead ’ in |
| 21 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 22 | ‘ For Christ 's sake — because I believe Tweed is innocent , that he 's been framed up to the hilt . |
| 23 | ‘ And saying , ’ said Wendy , ‘ that he 's been held up at a confinement when he 's forgotten all about somebody . ’ |
| 24 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 25 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 26 | Hence the suggestion in [ 30 ] , but not in [ 23 ] , that the speaker feels that the disappearance of his childhood has no explanation , that he has been tricked out of his childhood . |
| 27 | Iago 's first stated reason for hating his master is that he has been passed over in favour of ‘ a great arithmetician ’ , a ‘ counter-caster ’ , Michael Cassio ( Othello , I.i.19–31 ) . |
| 28 | Cruising Altitude was so impressive in beating Morley Street at Newbury that he has been backed down to 8-1 for the Champion . |
| 29 | Cruising Altitude was so impressive in beating Morley Street at Newbury that he has been backed down to 8-1 for the Champion . |