Example sentences of "[noun] that he [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had crossed her mind that he was using her , but was n't she using him ? |
| 2 | And yet the night before the wedding his detachment or his melancholy reasserted itself when he told Stanley Baker that he was marrying her only ‘ because she expected it ’ . |
| 3 | But he was incapable of saying more , and instead seized her in a bearlike hug , heedless of her cry that he was squashing her . |
| 4 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 5 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 6 | I think er through the figures that he was producing we all realized something was up and various computers flying around the place you know , and the figures produced by them . |
| 7 | If I heard him correctly , and I thought so , judging by the figures that he was quoting it must have been a more recent Price Waterhouse survey , not the original . |
| 8 | They said little of importance during the meal , but Jane had the feeling that he was watching her , though in a kindly , not a critical way . |
| 9 | She had the feeling that he was finding it extraordinarily difficult to keep his own voice even . |
| 10 | Again she had the feeling that he was testing her . |
| 11 | Sylvie had a sense that he was threatening her . |
| 12 | The main reason that he was carrying it rather than wearing it was that it did not belong to him . |
| 13 | And and lots of churches that he was telling us that he 'd been in contact with . |
| 14 | Those moments did not last for long , however , because she was soon hearing again his silky , and infuriating , declaration that he was taking her over as his girlfriend . |
| 15 | But she had said nothing , and she knew from the look on his face that he was thinking she was still bearing a grudge from the incident in the storeroom the previous night . |
| 16 | He had laid waste — everything ; her senses most of all , but also her pride , her independent will , and even her anger and hatred , for the time that he was touching her . |
| 17 | She looked at him again and saw this time that he was watching her . |
| 18 | The fact that he was kissing her , holding her in his arms , did n't mean her feelings were reciprocated . |
| 19 | With his dark good looks , Luke Calder was a devastatingly attractive man , but right at that moment Fran was more concerned by the fact that he was watching her as though he would like to take her by her slender neck and shake her ! |
| 20 | His hair was cut close into a fringe , to-make the best of the fact that he was losing it . |
| 21 | I recently asked Lord King of British Airways about his decision to buy Boeing aircraft and United States General Electric aero engines — not only that , but the fact that he was giving them a foothold in Britain at the expense of Rolls-Royce . |
| 22 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 23 | He could have told this without turning to look ; but he did turn , because he did not want to give the Padre the impression that he was avoiding him . |