Example sentences of "that he have been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 2 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 3 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 4 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 5 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 6 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 7 | My brother , now himself in the RAF , turned up at the door of the Met Office one morning , announcing that he had been posted to Bourn . |
| 8 | No one , as usual , wanted to discuss the fact that he had been sentenced to death . |
| 9 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 10 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 11 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 12 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 13 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 14 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 15 | I telephoned that prison only to learn that he had been transferred to Risley . |
| 16 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 17 | Just as with other heroes like Arthur and Charlemagne , it was thought that he had been transported to another time or place to await his country 's greatest need . |
| 18 | Earlier , in November 1990 , NLD representative Maung Ko had died in military custody ; the authorities claimed that he had committed suicide , but his relatives insisted that he had been tortured to death . |
| 19 | His death two days later in a Hebron prison provoked Palestinian , Arab and international accusations that he had been tortured to death . |
| 20 | The skin , he noted , was still tinged golden — that faint tone which signified to those in the know that he had been subjected to the bi-annual treatment of Longivex , the Imperial longevity drug which , because of the rarity of the poppy from which it was produced , was restricted to the élite , the favoured few such as the royal family , the privileged , the very rich — and he frowned as he wondered how long it would be before the absence of the drug showed in his physique and appearance . |
| 21 | Prime Minister John Compton defended Fostin by saying that he had been subjected to unjustified attacks in the press over the poor state of the country 's roads . |
| 22 | Leith tried to remember his name , recalled that he had been introduced to her as Travis something or other , checked that Rosemary did not appear under stress , and left them to it . |
| 23 | When she began to protest , he claimed he was getting help on an out-patient basis , and that he had been going to AA . |
| 24 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 25 | On April 14 Taylor declared that he had been forced to signed the Geneva agreement , which , he claimed was " unbalanced and unsatisfactory " . |
| 26 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 27 | It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’ |
| 28 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 29 | The latest production to have commenced shooting in Dublin is ‘ Into The West ’ , the story of a re-housed gypsy who refuses to be parted from his horse — despite the fact that he has been moved to a high rise block . |
| 30 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |