Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 2 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 3 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 4 | Anderson , the Clerk to the meeting , who was strongly attached to Sir John Anstruther , when he was called upon to attach the seal to the commission returning Alexander ‘ pretended that it had been abstracted from him ’ . |
| 5 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 6 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 7 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 8 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 9 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 10 | Access to Israel from the occupied territories was re-opened on Oct. 28 , but when Arabs returned to their jobs many found that they had been dismissed . |
| 11 | When Cato 's supporters arrived at court they found that they had been pre-empted . |
| 12 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 13 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 14 | He further found that she had been lulled into a sense of false security by the hospital staff and been misinformed as to the availability and effect of alternative procedures . |
| 15 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 16 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 17 | The intention to resolve disputes with Libya , notably over the Aouzou strip , although formalized in the agreement on Aug. 31 , 1989 ( see p. 36841 ) , was obstructed by repeated allegations that Libya was supporting anti-regime forces and factions ( although in the wake of that agreement some anti-Habre groups in Tripoli reported that they had been asked to leave ) , and by the Libyan insistence that Chad should return some 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war ( see also p. 37114 ) . |
| 18 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 19 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 20 | The following week James Butlin reported that she had been ‘ exceedingly foul in her linen and verminous at the time of her admission ’ . |
| 21 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 22 | Jean Parmiter reported that she has been asked by the Executive Committee to organise the Annual Reunion on 29th November . |
| 23 | Jean Parmiter reported that she has been asked by the Executive Committee to organise the Annual Reunion on 29th November . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , they have demonstrated activity in the visual areas during an imaging task , in the language areas during a verbal task and even , on one - occasion , in the higher visual areas of a schizophrenic patient who subsequently reported that he had been hallucinating . |
| 25 | After some weeks , Paisley reported that he had been unable to persuade the speaker of the House of Commons to allow the Black case to be raised in an adjournment debate and that he was pessimistic of having it raised in Parliament in any other form . |
| 26 | Iain reported that he had been in touch with the Colvins and the Newis ( retired Methodist couple with experience in Africa ) and both of these had agreed to be a support to the Mafinyani 's . |
| 27 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 28 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 29 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 30 | It was some time before he realized that he had been fooled . |