Example sentences of "[noun] [be] that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 2 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 3 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 4 | The only difference was that she understood him now . |
| 5 | The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 7 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 8 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 10 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 11 | The mutual understanding is that they give him their votes , and he gives them his services , always seeking to prove that he is at the very least as obliging and as diligent as the other " TDs and would-be TDs in his constituency . |
| 12 | There was no laughter now , no mockery , and she went still , wondering how to answer the question , how to explain that the reason was that she loved him . |
| 13 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 14 | The incredible thing was that she guessed he had no idea of the impact he made , or simply did n't care . |
| 15 | A consequence of Anderson 's greater interest in certain topics of conversation is that it leads him , on occasions , to create conversational confusion . |
| 16 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |