Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [that] he was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is n't for nothing that he was called the most dangerous man in the galaxy . ’ |
| 2 | It was not for nothing that he was chosen as Mr Squeaky Clean after the sexual and financial aberrations of his two predecessors . |
| 3 | If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem . |
| 4 | It was said of him that he was preparing his Easter sermon early one Easter Day when the significance of the resurrection dawned on him . |
| 5 | Lucky for him that he was wearing a fire-proof suit , and it was only the joins such as between the leg and the boots , where the mask did n't cover the face , eyebrows , nostrils , lungs and wrists that were severely burnt . |
| 6 | How to explain to them that he was changed ? |
| 7 | It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six . |
| 8 | About a month later , he said to me that he was compelled to agree that the first dinner had not been a success ( his words ) , and would I be kind enough to arrange a second ? |
| 9 | And I must also add that I was a trifle put out , and surprised , because it seemed to me that he was turning down a good opportunity . |
| 10 | It never occurred to me that he was protecting me . |
| 11 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 12 | Unthreatened by war service , he found , like his friends , that the only way to prove to himself that he was grown up was to chase and lie with innumerable young women . |
| 13 | Hating himself for that snobbery , he drove the boy harder , refusing to admit to himself that he was failing . |
| 14 | The pupils had been going on at me about ‘ You 're always picking on me ’ ' and then finally the boy said to him that he was picking on him because he was black and he said ‘ That just triggered it off ’ . |
| 15 | It was now painfully obvious to him that he was dealing with a very fragile mental state , and he did n't want to be responsible for setting it off balance irreparably . |
| 16 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 17 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 18 | He said nothing for a minute or two and told the person next to him that he was having a bad dream when the stranger woke him up . |
| 19 | Anyway , one day he shouted to her that he was taking the bike out , she was in another room doing something , and minutes later he was dead . |
| 20 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 21 | When he spoke , it seemed to her that he was listening to his own thoughts as much as conveying them to her . |
| 22 | The mortifying thought occurred to her that he was playing games , that he somehow had telepathic powers and could read every angry , frightened , confused , cowardly thought scurrying through her brain … |
| 23 | Miss Sherwin added : ‘ You can infer from these circumstances and the large amount of cash he had on him that he was intending to be selling those tabs that night . ’ |
| 24 | And that morning 's takings had trebled and brought her new custom , for he had always seen to it that he was shod well and had good small clothes and shirts . |
| 25 | I told her ladyship and she saw to it that he was got rid of . |
| 26 | It was a signal to us that he was moving on . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He put the proposition to us that he was forming a unit that would operate behind the lines . |