Example sentences of "[pron] that [noun prp] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paced up and down the tiny room while I sat on her bed , and she explained to me that McIllvanney had been approached by a client who had apparently seen Ellen and authorised McIllvanney to offer her the money . |
| 2 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 3 | She burst into tears and told me that Charlie had been killed on the Western Front . |
| 4 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 5 | as if to refute everything that Celia had been thinking , Dr Shalcross suddenly said , ‘ Many women fight shy of motherhood for one reason or another . |
| 6 | The involvement of students was something that Owen had been hoping to avoid . |
| 7 | The parish constable , a mournful little man , had informed him that Meg had been murdered . |
| 8 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 9 | In his account of the rumours surrounding Constantius will , Ammianus points out that the gossip had it that Julian had been instituted heir and friends had been left legacies and trusts . |