Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 2 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 3 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 4 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 5 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 6 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 7 | My mother would answer inaudibly , but it would be evident from my father 's all-too-audible answering tirade that she had been gently remonstrating . |
| 8 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 9 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 10 | It reminded her too strongly for her own good that he had been doled out far too much fatal charm . |
| 11 | Colt knew his target at once from the photograph that he had been given . |
| 12 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 13 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 14 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 15 | According to our manager and most of the people we work with , the break that we had was too long . |
| 16 | Winnie Mandela told supporters that she had been found guilty by the media . |
| 17 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 18 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 19 | In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records . |
| 20 | Was it Dominic 's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly ? |
| 21 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 22 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 23 | The sensations that he had were extraordinary . |
| 24 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 25 | She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive . |
| 26 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 27 | Yes , here was Hatton 's entry that he had been too ill to start the return journey until noon . |
| 28 | That is why , according to Eliot , soda siphons from that firm — I have never checked this — bear on their labels some phrase to the effect that they had been thoroughly and exhaustively tested . |
| 29 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 30 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |