Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last words that I heard were , ‘ Good night , Piper , I shall leave the door open . ’ |
| 2 | Unfortunately not , the only two that I knew were Al ( Byrne ) and Kev Daly ( Who also played in the youth FA cup final ) Because I went to school with them — they were both 2 years below me but Al 's brother was in my year and Kev went out with a girl who sat in front of me . |
| 3 | I lay rigid , willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again . |
| 4 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 5 | I think the only body that I knew was er an old man McDonald , you called him , was a pack man at that time . |
| 6 | All that I saw was seen also by Hugh Beringar , but after what has come to light this morning these details fall into place . ’ |
| 7 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 8 | Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets . |
| 9 | Several that I saw were very old , bearded , emaciated and grim and deathlike , instead of babies , grown men . |
| 10 | The ones that I saw were . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 13 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 14 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 15 | Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’ |
| 16 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 17 | I was flattered that I 'd been chosen , but at the same time pretty scared . |
| 18 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 19 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 20 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 21 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 22 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 23 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 24 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 25 | Before that I 'd been happy to think of him vaguely in terms of Sartre , de Beauvoir , Paris , existentialism , absurdity … |
| 26 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 27 | For instance , it 's perfectly obvious that what I was trying to do for my clients was patch up their lives and their relationships in a way that I 'd been unable to do for my parents . |
| 28 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 29 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 30 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |