Example sentences of "[that] [pron] have [been] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't tell me that you give a damn , ’ she said , ‘ do n't tell me that I 've been anything to you but a brief interlude . ’ |
| 2 | Was it true that she had been one among others who had put up bail for Wullie Robertson ? |
| 3 | George Michael was on with Jacqueline Bisset and he confessed that she had been his pin-up and he 'd loved her from afar for years . |
| 4 | I had to presume some sort of sexual relationship between the girl and him — to do otherwise would have been naive ; but for all that there had been something much more daughterly , affectionately protective , than sexual in her glance back at him . |
| 5 | What was different was that there had been something else mixed in with the raw hunger blazing in his eyes . |
| 6 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 7 | I asked my granny why and she said that there had been what we now call a newsflash on the wireless saying the King had died . |
| 8 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 9 | Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey . |
| 10 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 11 | Not that there had been anything problematical about the journey to La Paz — just the normal anxieties . |
| 12 | However Scotland 's largest education authority , Strathclyde Regional Council , was able to say yesterday that there had been none at all in its area since the establishment of the council in the mid-Seventies . |
| 13 | Perhaps he should have told the police that there had been someone going into Wyvis Hall every day during those months of summer . |
| 14 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 15 | Well and he wrote me this letter saying erm saying I , I realise that there 's been something on your mind recently and I hope you can talk to me about it . |
| 16 | And the the policy now with is that this will ta now take place I know that there 's been somebody here for the last three years , but this will now take place every two years . |
| 17 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 18 | Conservative ministers and many commentators claim that there has been something of a revolution in British politics in the 1980s . |
| 19 | We can then consider the implications of this analysis for one of the general views identified in the introduction — that there has been nothing but conflict between science and religion . |
| 20 | So , there are these sort of centres all over the country , er but this is the first time that there has been one that has arts and science under the same room . |
| 21 | She probably knew too that they had been none too fond of Granny when she 'd been alive . |
| 22 | ‘ The suggestion that they have been anything other than sympathetic and supportive is untrue and particularly hurtful . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The suggestion that they have been anything other than sympathetic and supportive is untrue and particularly hurtful . ’ |
| 24 | She remembered the needle going into flesh , but she was not sure that it had been her own . |
| 25 | Could she not say that it had been her own choice to leave the Longhills , that they were not suited to one another ? |
| 26 | She cried to Beuno that it had been her doll when she was a little girl and she had loved it , and he took the spade , and dug a hole , and buried it . |
| 27 | And Folly was suddenly swept with a wave of gratitude that it had been her assistant who had uncovered her secret , and not the pompous Miss Philimore . |
| 28 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 29 | She told him that she could have stayed onstage for hours , that it had been he most exhilarating experience of her life . |
| 30 | Jack explained that it had been his father driving the car . |