Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 2 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 5 | Afterwards he simply said : ‘ It was my biggest achievement yet and I was not at all disappointed as I did something that I thought was beyond me . |
| 6 | erm , the one thing that I thought was under person who is who is talking he 's got ta be I think he 's got ta be firm so that the person understands that erm that what is required but he 's also got ta be fair at the same time has n't he ? |
| 7 | Something that I noticed is in the towns like Kirkwall and Stromness there 's a kind of slovenly way of speaking Orcadian where they go butter water . |
| 8 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 9 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 10 | This school looked so much bigger than the other two primary schools that I had been to . |
| 11 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 12 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 13 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 14 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |
| 15 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 16 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 17 | After his liaison ended and he was alone again , he wrote simply and forlornly , ‘ I hated being alone so much that I preferred being with a bad whore to being alone . ’ |
| 18 | The figure that I gave was of those who are directly or indirectly affected by the opencast sector . |
| 19 | It meant at least that someone had been in the burial mound , though not necessarily recently . |
| 20 | ‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her . |
| 21 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 22 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 23 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 24 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 25 | It seemed that she had been on her own forever . |
| 26 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 27 | Just as well that she had been at least spared the ordeal of having to face him this morning . |
| 28 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 29 | It was , she said , adding that she had been to over fifty funerals in the UK alone , the funeral of a lifetime . |
| 30 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |