Example sentences of "that [pron] have be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 At the beginning of October , Kathy , who had again been invited for supper , arrived at Clare 's apartment to find that nothing had been cooked .
2 It became clear that nothing had been gained by removing the prince , especially as another ruler had now to be found .
3 His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district .
4 He appealed for leniency on the grounds that nothing had been touched .
5 Yet I discovered that nothing had been disturbed . ’
6 There had been no word from Steve or Maria Lisa and though there was no time element concerned with this contract she was still a little worried that nothing had been accomplished with the airlines and tourist board in Palma .
7 Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied .
8 He wanted to make certain for himself that nothing had been overlooked .
9 He replied that nothing had been put forward concerning a trust .
10 For unless there is the sense that nothing has been done there will be no work .
11 Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done .
12 Back at catering HQ Liz ensures that the fridges are locked , that the valves on the washing-up machines are open and that nothing has been left switched on .
13 ‘ No , thank you , miss — I like to do the job myself , and then I know that nothing has been left out . ’
14 Students often complain that nothing has been learned from a particular allocation .
15 I consider that nothing has been laid before your Lordships to justify the view that their advice based on this objection was incorrect .
16 Even if you are confident that your present arrangements are adequate can you be sure that nothing has been overlooked ?
17 The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed .
18 It is , of course , desirable to check that nothing has been forgotten and to this end it is usual to ask an operator to go through the designed procedure while observing what he does and also observing that the system performs as expected .
19 The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ?
20 The Poles took the matter seriously , but the League of Nations , saying that no-one had been hurt and perhaps the revolver had not been loaded , took no action .
21 She also checks that no-one has been overlooked .
22 ‘ Never mind that I 've been tricked , deceived into coming all the way down here !
23 It 's because of that interest , and those letters , that I 've been sent to do a special report . ’
24 I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries .
25 I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day ,
26 Now the first story that I 've been asked to tell specially comes not from this country we 'll just let our lads here get dressed because you , you knew that the story was gon na come from a very hot country did you ?
27 ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’
28 I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . "
29 I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years .
30 And I 'm aware that I 've been called too bland on occasions .
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