Example sentences of "[noun] be that he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that he left my flat in a fuming temper , very gruff but very sober , and the broadcast was , I was given to understand , of consummate skill and effectiveness . |
| 2 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 3 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 4 | The inevitable consequence of his marriage was that he forfeited his fellowship , and the security it had given him . |
| 5 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 6 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |
| 7 | Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 8 | If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ . |
| 9 | Anyway , the upshot was that he demanded there be a committee meeting this Thursday to work out a club strategy . ’ |
| 10 | Either Mr. Woodford had a twinkle in his eye or was just a good salesman , but the upshot was that he supplied my grandmother over many years , in his turn his son carried on and continued serving my mother , right up to 1949 when the Salisbury round had only two customers left . |
| 11 | The difference was that he accepted her attempt at consolation , taking her palm between both of his own hands , holding it gently and meeting her compassionate gaze with the glimmer of a smile . |
| 12 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 13 | The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he believes his own propaganda . |
| 14 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 17 | The secret of Jesus ' great kindness to people was that he helped them and yet always gave them space to be themselves . |
| 18 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 19 | The tragedy of man is that he declares himself autonomous of God and in consequence is condemned to live East of Eden . |
| 20 | A felicitous footnote to that incident is that he got his cake after all . |
| 21 | A clergyman in his late thirties recently said : ‘ No-one has asked me about my praying since I was ordained ! ’ — whether he wanted anyone to ask him was not clear , but the implication was that he needed it ! |
| 22 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
| 23 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 24 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 25 | The next thing was that he wanted her to hold the bulge . |
| 26 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 27 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 28 | Welsh bardic tradition was that he carried his offensive into the heartland of Gwynedd . |
| 29 | Smith was a painful blustering bully of a man whose only redeeming feature was that he knew his job . |
| 30 | Beales 's story was that he met his friend in the pub just after 1 p.m . |