Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] that [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 2 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 3 | Most people thought he looked like a tramp with his habit of tying his trousers up with string , but the first thing that all the dancers noticed was that he had big , flat feet . |
| 4 | When Cain made his feelings known , the only explanation he received was that he had to master his sin before God would be impressed with him . |
| 5 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | So , of course , what happened was that you had all these wonderful posters about you as you walked in the foyer and as the punters came out drunk , you sold them weekends in Ibiza . |
| 8 | What really happened was that he had to climb a length of rope which had mattresses underneath it so that at the end of each take he could simply drop to the ground in safety . |
| 9 | The last they heard was that he had gone over the wall for two years . |
| 10 | ‘ The last thing I heard was that she 'd gone to America and married some newspaper magnate twice her age . |
| 11 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 12 | What he meant was that you had to cover a lot of ground to find anything newsworthy . |
| 13 | All that mattered was that we had reached the summit , and more importantly had a good day out . |
| 14 | All that mattered was that she had been the fool . |
| 15 | ‘ They knew they had a hell of a battle on their hands and the first thing I stressed was that we had to fight to win the ball — and we did , ’ he said . |
| 16 | What she understood was that she had grossly misinterpreted the situation . |
| 17 | All she knew was that she had to get away from him before she betrayed herself . |
| 18 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 19 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 20 | All he knew was that he had been inadequately protected , and that an attempt on his life had been thwarted by the merest accident . |
| 21 | All he knew was that he had to get away from Weatherbury . |
| 22 | One thing she knew was that you had to keep quiet around fish , or so men would have you believe . |
| 23 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 24 | One of these had been that he had suggested going to the Isle of Wight on holiday with the same friends , every year , self-catering . |
| 25 | The attraction of Lucas Simmonds had been that he had appeared to be confidently , unusually , happily " normal " , good friend , good sport , reliable leader , bright chap , blazer , flannels and smiling face . |
| 26 | According to her foster brother , another clue had been that she had so blatantly considered Vitor to be ‘ a real cool dude ’ , but she saw no reason to reveal that . |
| 27 | The only thing she said was that she had not made any friends . ’ |
| 28 | On Oct. 22 Mohorita was recalled by deputies from the Federal Assembly Presidium , although the reason cited was that he had breached protocol by chewing gum during a speech to the Assembly on Sept. 13 by France 's President Mitterrand . |