Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 2 | Iain reported that he had been in touch with the Colvins and the Newis ( retired Methodist couple with experience in Africa ) and both of these had agreed to be a support to the Mafinyani 's . |
| 3 | The message read that she had been in the hotel that night ; that she had met David ; that a tape had been taken of the conversation ; that if he thought he could arrest her brother and charge him with murder , he should now try ; that , if he thought he could intern her whilst completely innocent , he should now try ; that several persons had listened to the conversation in the hotel that night and that one was an Ulster MP . |
| 4 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 5 | It seemed that she had been on her own forever . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 8 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 9 | A recent strand test showed that it has been over processed . |
| 10 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 11 | Maxine confessed that there had been times when she had thought she might be going mad , so great was her horror of water . |
| 12 | His body felt that it had been in a terrible accident . |
| 13 | I knew that they had been on the point of shipping dialysis machines to Lebanon in an attempt to free Alec Collett just before the bombing of Libya . |
| 14 | And she knew that he had been to The Bar over thirty times in seven weeks now . |
| 15 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 16 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 17 | Diana insisted that she had been in her apartment , exhausted after a late night at the Ritz hotel where she and Prince Charles had attended Princess Margaret 's 50th birthday party . |
| 18 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 19 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
| 20 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 21 | The man said that he had been with a woman . |
| 22 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 23 | He said that he had been in a corner of the bar talking to the landlord and friends during the time that the incident took place . |
| 24 | Thorpe who was to have headed the bill said that he had been in touch with the promoters earlier in the year and had agreed to come over provided he was given details in writing . |
| 25 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 26 | Bush denied that he had been in Paris and called for an end to the " rumour-mongering " concerning the affair . |
| 27 | Since Georgina denied that she had been to Miller 's End since Christmas , and to the woods behind the cottage since the previous autumn , the forensic evidence clinched the case against her . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |