Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 2 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 3 | It was not necessary for him to know that she 'd been a widow for years . |
| 4 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 5 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 6 | But to know that he had been there , and she had n't seen him … |
| 7 | Recent press coverage was given to a newly married couple , both aged 85 , who arrived at their hotel to discover that they had been allocated twin beds . |
| 8 | He was referring to print-outs that had enabled the US Congress to discover that he had been secretly bombing Cambodia . |
| 9 | Women jeered at Blackshirts who made their way to them , only to find that they had been lured into a group of Communist sympathisers intent on vengeance . |
| 10 | I thought that those were wise words when I read them and was delighted to find that they had been written by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border ( Mr. Maclean ) in The Lake District Herald only this week . |
| 11 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 12 | This happened to our Corporal Jane , who arrived back in camp after a brief visit to one of the neighbouring air fields to find that she had been posted to the Met Office at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon , and the corporal there , Rosemary Hilton , had received a reciprocal posting to Bourn . |
| 13 | Eventually all was well , pockets complete , only for her to find that she had been cutting out these pocket linings in her already prepared garment lining ! ! |
| 14 | Gorbachev declined to comment on the talks , other than to indicate that they had been inspired by the scale of the commercial links which already existed between their countries . |
| 15 | A similar case is GLC Police Commissioner v Strecker ( 1980 ) 71 Cr App R 113 ( DC ) — initialling goods to indicate that they had been stolen did not indicate possession . |
| 16 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 17 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 18 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |
| 19 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 20 | A single trivial occurrence does not entitle you to claim that you had been constructively dismissed . |
| 21 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 22 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 23 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 24 | So I had to presume that they had been specially brought ; had been standing by , hiding somewhere , waiting for me to read the Foulkes pamphlet . |
| 25 | In his confused state the Doctor could not reasonably have been expected to remember that he had been captured by Chelonians — creatures whose girth was of a considerably more impressive span than their height . |
| 26 | The Saudi Arabians , who had been expected to support Venezuela , adopted a low key approach , leading most commentators to suggest that they had been intimidated by Iraq 's belligerence . |
| 27 | In his judgment , Lord Justice Dillon rejected Mothercare 's claim for passing off because in particular the book taken as a whole , not merely its title , did not begin to suggest that it had been issued by or sponsored by or was in any way associated with Mothercare . |
| 28 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
| 29 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 30 | The housekeeper , French by origin and known as Madame , was one of those fair Nordic or Norman types whose hair and complexion were of a uniformity to suggest that she had been dipped in custard . |