Example sentences of "[vb infin] that he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allow , say , an hour at the scene , and with luck he would be home again before Nell woke and she need never know that he had been away . |
| 2 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 3 | A soft dog would cower , perhaps holding his foot up to let you know that he has been hurt and even if you move towards him to apologize , he will move away with a worried expression . |
| 4 | Churchill , as First Lord of the Admiralty , could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions , without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken . |
| 5 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 6 | He 'll definitely be playing for the French next week and they would n't even confirm that he 'd been banned from the scum 's next 4 matches in Europe ( which ones did they have in mind ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ) . |
| 7 | The law therefore sets a point ( although an extremely unclear one ) at which the citizen is not entitled to resist further , and must be expected to endure the indignity or invasion , seeking relief subsequently when he can substantiate that he has been the victim of a police mistake . |
| 8 | It was possible that Riddle had committed suicide in such a way as to make it appear that he had been murdered . |
| 9 | Did I mind that he had been torn from his work — and from me — by Ahmed , his dead sister 's devastated amour ? |
| 10 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 11 | While he may not have said in so any words that these encounters with the press had been an " eye-opener , he did remember that he had been sincerely treated by the Journalists courtesy and by the beneficent power of journalism in the modern world . " |
| 12 | The others looked at him almost in disbelief , but I could see that he had been thinking very carefully . |
| 13 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 14 | Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him . |
| 15 | ’ N'Grabbit depressed a button on the unit she held in her hand and a new graphic merged with the first ‘ … you can see that he has been somewhat over-confident in his predictions . |
| 16 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 17 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 18 | Cruel observers may remark that he 's been going downhill ever since . |
| 19 | Only when they moved out and the lease was surrendered did Vaughan discover that he had been a victim of Minton 's generosity and had been paying only half his fair share . |
| 20 | When St Paul told the Christians in Philippi that he had learnt to be content , he did n't mean that he was smug ; it did n't mean that he had been well fed and could put his feet up . |
| 21 | His sword was extended in two-handed guard and suddenly Rostov knew that he would never admit that he had been beaten . |
| 22 | But he 'd done this before and then suddenly , by a single comment , Willi would reveal that he had been playing a game all along . |
| 23 | But from the look of his clothes it would n't seem that he 'd been jostled about much by the tide . |
| 24 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 25 | Sometimes , however , a customer will complain that he has been given incorrect change . |
| 26 | He could not deny that he had been an unfaithful husband , although he was gentleman enough to keep the names of his various inamoratas to himself . |