Example sentences of "was [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 2 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 3 | ‘ My obvious reaction was that he had gone to help her , ’ Mr Clarke , a community affairs officer who was travelling to police headquarters , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court . |
| 4 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 5 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 6 | Pattenism is not to be a continuation of Ridleyism : an important theme underlying the whole speech was that he intends not to err on the side of market forces at the expense of planning restrictions . |
| 7 | Ken Ward gave orders to bale out saying how sorry he was that he 'd got his crew into this mess ! |
| 8 | What the little boys remembered about his class was that he made divinity fun , even though it was before breakfast . |
| 9 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 10 | The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent . |
| 11 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 12 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 13 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 14 | When she realised that she was pregnant , her one clear emotion was that he should not know . |
| 15 | Finniston 's greatest disappointment during his time at British Steel was that he never succeeded in persuading the unions to form a single group to simplify negotiations . |
| 16 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 17 | This ‘ evidence ’ was never published but he persisted in his belief that his only crime was that he was found out . |
| 18 | Eva was only two then , and all I could think was that he 'd stolen my little girl . |
| 19 | The answer was that he had flown out quite coincidentally to attend a wedding . |
| 20 | The clear fact was that he was having serious trouble knowing where to start . |
| 21 | Valenzuela 's testimony had confirmed Wally 's involvement in several brutal killings , and Valenzuela 's first reaction was that he had unwittingly taken yet another life . |
| 22 | If Wooderson was any different from his fellows it was that he tried harder ; he had the old equivalent of tunnel vision , enhanced by a coach , Albert Hill , who had won the 800 and 1500 metres at a single Olympics . |
| 23 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 24 | One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders . |
| 25 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 26 | So , the underlying part of the contract , as I understand it with Bowie , was that he was going to make an album with Tony Visconti and that song had to be done as a single . |
| 27 | So his angle with me was that he 'd get me work and get the money owed to me . |
| 28 | What happened was that he started doing his English Ziggy Stardust dates in early ‘ 72 and he worked without stopping until the summer of ‘ 73 when he did his Hammersmith Odeon concert and retired from the stage . |
| 29 | It was n't exactly like he had to have an appointment , but it was that he did n't fit into the structure . |
| 30 | The feeling among press and public was that he was too young , too inexperienced , and too much was being asked of him too soon . |