Example sentences of "he [was/were] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst of being in a job which the world regarded as not the right place for him was that the world would not leave him alone . |
| 2 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |
| 3 | The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable . |
| 4 | What puzzled him was that the beautiful creature could never have arranged itself in that unnatural position . |
| 5 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
| 6 | She realised that the strange thing about him was that he was not drunk . |
| 7 | What worried him was that the man was somehow rejecting the film , announcing that he did n't think life was really like that . |
| 8 | The next point that upset him was that I said that unlike the American President , the Prime Minister was relieved of a great deal of official ceremonial by the Queen and Prince Philip . |
| 9 | And the reason why she had been so slow to recognise him was that on the ship he had looked so much older . |
| 10 | But Eubank had only harsh words for Piper saying : ‘ The only thing that impressed me about him was that you could see he was thinking about what he was doing . |
| 11 | What did bother him was that in his duel within McLaren with Prost , the Frenchman , six years his junior , always started with an advantage . |
| 12 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 13 | One of the problems facing him was that one can not simply set up any experiment in a public building ; health and safety regulations have to be obeyed . |
| 14 | The only thing that stopped him was that he could n't decide exactly what the problem was . |
| 15 | And her only reason for distrusting him was that she distrusted Alexander , a feeling almost certainly shared by the majority of people who had ever met him . |
| 16 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 17 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 18 | What had startled him was that she had a sister , Sandra Riverton , who had worked for INCUBUS in Suffolk . |
| 19 | the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all . |
| 20 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 21 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 22 | What did bother him was that Graham used him to get at Barak . |
| 23 | But what she needed to hear from him was that he found Muriel as off-putting as she did : he certainly did n't like her , Alice knew that . |
| 24 | All I knew about him was that he was someone who belonged to Jean-Claude 's past , and that Jean-Claude was indebted to him . |
| 25 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 26 | speaking to him was that erm the place he where he 's recording in Scotland erm tends to have an unusual vocabulary . |
| 27 | One of the things that particularly amused him was that Hilary had pushed a red handkerchief into his sleeve as if it were a sign of breeding and distinction . |
| 28 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |
| 29 | After reading about this incident in my book the headteacher involved wrote to me saying he felt that teachers do perhaps shout too much but that the issue for him was that the student was a ‘ guest ’ in the school which in turn was a family . |
| 30 | ‘ I asked him was that pounds or dollars and he said dollars , so I said sure that 's not so bad and offered him £5 off the price of a new sweater . |