Example sentences of "that i have [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 2 | SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I 've been sung to by Smokey Robinson for my whole life . |
| 3 | My report to the Planning Committee is a sound professional technical planning report and I believe that on the information that I 've been supplied with I can recommend to the Planning Committee to approve the application . |
| 4 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 5 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 6 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 7 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 8 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 9 | I also explained to him myself that I had been abused by my father , who was a doctor , and that I did not wish to be examined by a man . |
| 10 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 11 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 12 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 13 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 14 | IN EXTRACTS from my forthcoming book , A Cuckoo in the Bodyline Nest , published in the May and June issues of WCM , I wrote that I had been born in Marathon Avenue , Darling Point , Sydney , next door to Gubby Allen . |
| 15 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 16 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 17 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 18 | Rain said : ‘ You were told by Edouard that I had been tricked into going to the museum . |
| 19 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 20 | I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life . |
| 21 | My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors . |
| 22 | I then tried to deduce the events of the previous night and discovered some time later that I had been raped by force by XYZ who had been on the mini bus and followed me home . |
| 23 | But the important thing was , the impression that everyone er had , who read the paper , was that I had been interviewed by the press . |
| 24 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 25 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 26 | From documents that I have been sent by the senior chief inspector it is clear that the total number of inspectors will be used as follows : 11 will conduct high-profile surveys and focus inspections , six will inspect schools at risk and another 26 will undertake inspections to supplement database evidence . |
| 27 | If , when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at |
| 28 | After the hearing the woman said : ‘ It 's ridiculous that I have been brought to court . |
| 29 | The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ . |