Example sentences of "that he [verb] [be] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 2 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 3 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 4 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 5 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 6 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 7 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 8 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 9 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |