Example sentences of "that it [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 2 | ‘ If my memory serves me correct , it was you who declared that it had been of no consequence and to wipe it out , ’ he said , the adoring fiancé replaced by an aloof accuser . |
| 3 | He would surprise everyone by getting a new speech right , but then show that it had been at the expense of other sections of dialogue . |
| 4 | USSR Interior Minister Boris Pugo explained that it had been at the request of a " national salvation committee " formed by the pro-Moscow Lithuanian CP on Jan. 11 , after its members were allegedly beaten up outside parliament as they protested against " anti-Soviet slander " in the media . |
| 5 | The thought that it had been inside his mouth , touching his tongue and gums and those rather small but perfect teeth , that it had been drenched in some of his most intimate fluids gave me an erotic thrill . |
| 6 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 7 | Interest and miscellaneous expenses were , however , quite a different matter , and the fact that it had been in the nature of his employment to disburse vast and unspecified amounts , as he put it , ‘ upon the simple word of the treasurer ’ , who had died in 1635 , did not help matters . |
| 8 | His body felt that it had been in a terrible accident . |
| 9 | If that trust is breached , as the Whigs held that it had been by James II , the people have the right to resist the government and replace it with another . |