Example sentences of "that you had be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 2 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 3 | What 's more — ’ he turned to glare at Sophie ‘ — you did n't inform me that you had been called in . |
| 4 | But do you somehow wish that you had been reunited with Richard Burton ? |
| 5 | So you had found that you had been told to find . |
| 6 | As Lord Devlin has explained : " … you can not escape liability for defamation by putting the libel behind a prefix such as " I have been told that … " " or " it is rumoured that … " " , and then asserting that it was true that you had been told or that it was in fact being rumoured … |
| 7 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |
| 8 | ‘ After your arrival I received another anonymous letter , informing me that you had been planted by my enemies . |