Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had missed another call while out , and they had heard that Whitechapel had been sealed off . |
| 2 | Before long , Maudie had a baby — and soon after that , a telegram arrived saying that Arnold had been killed in action . |
| 3 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 4 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh dear , you and your girlfriends … well , perhaps Tory could come too ? ’ she looked enquiringly at Marie , who admitted that Victoria had been considered too young to ride by her parents . |
| 6 | Bernice decided that Ell had been watching too many films . |
| 7 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 8 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 9 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 10 | Whenever anybody started to make fun of Lennie , calling him cuckoo or crazy , George jumped straight to Lennie 's defence and said that Lennie had been kicked in the head when he was a little boy . |
| 11 | Police said that Kelly had been shot in the head by Bastian who then turned the gun on himself . |
| 12 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 13 | The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment . |
| 14 | In the increasingly murky circumstances surrounding the trial , two senior Conservative Party officials were subpoenaed on Feb. 19 to appear before a magistrate after refusing to disclose the sources of their allegation that Mekgwe had been kidnapped by the state intelligence service . |
| 15 | She wondered what Spiderglass would do to Chesarynth when they found out that Jezrael had been trying to free her . |
| 16 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 17 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 18 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 19 | On Jan. 29 , however , Pöhl disclosed to a German financial newspaper , Handesblatt , that Germany had been isolated in its opposition to an accord on currency " target zones " at the G-7 meeting . |
| 20 | When the Weimar Republic was founded , the feeling that Germany had once again been suppressed by victorious external powers was very strong : the division of Prussia into East and West , the imposition of reparations ( the economic effects of which Keynes so famously and misguidedly attacked ) and the association of republicanism and parliamentarianism with defeat all fostered the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back . |
| 21 | It was widely believed that Churchill had been converted to the European cause during the war , and that he had kept the flame of union alight . |
| 22 | Although gossip was that Churchill had been tempted , given the mighty scale of Germany 's achievements in so short a time , the iron returned to his soul and he steamrollered furiously through his doubting Cabinet . |
| 23 | Any unease that Lucy had been feeling now vanished in the face of Charlie 's uncharacteristic embarrassment . |
| 24 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 25 | The NCR spokeswoman denied claims that Teradata had been guaranteed its independence from NCR , saying that from the outset , management had made clear its intention to merge operations . |
| 26 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 27 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 28 | Speculation during that time that Arafat had been killed focused attention on the lack of an obvious replacement for Arafat as PLO chair and Palestinian leader . |
| 29 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 30 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |