Example sentences of "that he had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
| 2 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 3 | Indeed , it was largely because of this stance of old-fashioned industrial unionism that he had been elected in the first place . |
| 4 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 7 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 8 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 9 | He was quite prepared now to admit that he had been mistaken about Marie : that she was not thick and that , though she was not very articulate , she was , in her way , intelligent , kind , even sensitive . |
| 10 | Ramsay decided and declared that he had been mistaken in staying on in Berwick thus long . |
| 11 | Lee claimed that he had been libelled in an article published in December 1987 dealing with the arrest earlier that year of a group of Catholic lay workers supposedly involved in a " Marxist conspiracy " [ see p. 37086 ] . |
| 12 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 13 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 14 | On July 11 a police corporal was shot dead during an unsuccessful attempt by 100 provincial police to storm the barricade ; some reports claimed that he had been killed in cross-fire . |
| 15 | It was known that he had been archbishop of Canterbury between 1006 and 1012 , and that he had been killed by the Danes for refusing to pay Danegeld . |
| 16 | Local ANC members claimed that he had been killed by members of the Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) who were training Inkatha youths locally . |
| 17 | A CLERGYMAN who trains priests yesterday said he was saddened but not surprised that he had been sacked after admitting he does not believe in God . |
| 18 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 19 | Eye-witnesses denied this , however , saying that he had been engaged in a ‘ fair ’ stand up fight , but that when other people joined in he had fallen and struck his head on a tramline . |
| 20 | Davis Cup player Neil Broad , the ninth seed , lost 67 6-7 to 11th seed Paul Hand from Berkshire , but revealed afterwards that he had been hampered by a groin injury . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 23 | His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next . |
| 24 | A report from a Tajikta correspondent on March 8 said that he had been stripped of his deputy 's immunity by a two-thirds vote in the Supreme Soviet and arrested in the parliament building . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 26 | No one , as usual , wanted to discuss the fact that he had been sentenced to death . |
| 27 | They assumed that he had been absorbed by machinery of some kind ; since his own individual chromosomatic make-up was principally metallic . |
| 28 | If he met anyone he could say , with perfect truthfulness , that he had been absorbed in correcting students ' essays and had not realised the time until it was after five o'clock ? |
| 29 | ELBC radio ( Monrovia ) said that he had been seen at Man in Côte d'Ivoire , landing aboard a Cessna light aircraft with relatives , en route for Burkina . |
| 30 | Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted . |