Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [that] he was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let everyone think that he was calling from his own area , and not from the middle of their territory . |
| 2 | . And then as we were beating you see , inside , through the bushes and all , and a pheasant got up , and we used to shout , , do you see , for them to know that he was coming . |
| 3 | Then I realized that he was wounded , and could not run ; and that he carried a sword in his hand . |
| 4 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 5 | It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own . |
| 6 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |
| 7 | I noticed that he was starting to smell . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) said that VAT should be increased : I suspect that he was giving away a secret Tory agenda . |
| 9 | ‘ My heart fell to my boots , ’ Henrietta told another , ‘ for I dreaded that he was going to choose me and he did . ’ |
| 10 | Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning . |
| 11 | I believe that he was misleading the House and the country by those assertions , because the burden of the case of those of us who think that the Bill is completely irrelevant to the problems of our prisons which it purports to tackle is that the penalties already exist in the Public Order Act 1986 , for which the Government can legitimately take credit . |
| 12 | I believe that he was made a partner as soon as he had finished his degree — but that may be pure conjecture on my part . ’ |
| 13 | I felt that he was beginning to soften towards me . |
| 14 | I had hoped that Aung San would co-operate , but I felt that he was asking too much , though I hoped that the appointment of a smaller Council left the door open for AFPFL membership at a later date . |
| 15 | But suppose I insisted that he was uttering a falsehood . |
| 16 | I had never seen one , but my brother had talked of them , and I knew that he was hoping he might find one here . |
| 17 | Although I knew that he was getting the care that he needed it was so hard not to be able to hold and feed him , but only to sit and look at him lying in this bright , plastic container . |
| 18 | So I knew that he was calling P C into the room to give him cover . |
| 19 | I thought he was only joining in to please me , but before long I saw that he was enjoying it too , chiefly I think because to him it was a novelty . |
| 20 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 21 | This happened on the Sunday in question , and as I watched him climb the stairs , dragging himself up by the banister , I saw that he was sweating heavily . |
| 22 | I saw that he was examining my face during the same silence . |
| 23 | The prisoner ran like a wild goat , and soon I saw that he was coming near the bottom of my hill . |
| 24 | I thought that he was talking about the LBGC , the London Boroughs Grants Committee . |
| 25 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 26 | I understood that he was thanking me , and I tried to show him that I was his friend . |
| 27 | I think that he was pulling himself down to touch the pit of his character . |
| 28 | I learned that he was going to London early on the following day , so I asked him to meet me before he went . |
| 29 | I hoped that he was avoiding us because he felt ashamed of his offer to Ellen , but I doubted whether Matthew McIllvanney had ever felt ashamed of anything . |
| 30 | I suspected that he was hoping to hear that the senator had been arranging for an illicit love affair on board Wavebreaker . |