Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] he was [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He puts his arms round her , and insists that he was partly to blame as well . |
| 2 | Ho 's biographer insists that he was never blamed for the excesses ; the people distinguished between their revered leader and his ‘ entourage ’ . |
| 3 | Eadwig , who bore , or affected , a royal name , looks like a significant figure , and Florence says that he was eventually reconciled with Cnut . |
| 4 | But Mr Soden says that he was only trying to look after his family . |
| 5 | He says that he was only pretending to go |
| 6 | The E version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says that he was unjustly driven from Ely and went to Rome to clear himself before the pope of the charges brought against him . |
| 7 | Not only was Marx willing to accept that historical development might have followed several different lines in different places but it also shows that he was always revising his ideas . |
| 8 | Secondly , he states that he was never told that there were indications of German intentions to occupy Siwa and Giarabub . |
| 9 | A defendant who pleads that he was erroneously convicted is putting up a positive case and can be asked for particulars . |
| 10 | It seems that he was soon rescued by Derek Jameson of Radio 2 . |
| 11 | Williams continued to gather public support throughout 1954 , ( also the year that Learie Constantine returned after 30 years in England ) , and it seems that he was now consolidating his position in preparation for a decisive political move , but while he was still involved with the Caribbean Commission in an apolitical capacity , this move would be put on hold . |
| 12 | It seems that he was only proved guilty on one count of perverting the actual course of justice , but even so , the practice of a judge receiving presents at all made perversion more likely , and Bacon 's ingenious distinctions may be thought to differentiate between degrees of corruption rather than between guilt and innocence . |
| 13 | The Encomiast 's tale that he was born to another woman and smuggled into Ælfgifu of Northampton 's bed at least implies that he was generally recognised as son of Cnut and Ælfgifu , and Adam calls Gorm the Old Hardecnudth Vurm , which if correct makes it feasible to believe that Cnut named Swegen and Harold from his father and grandfather , and Harthacnut , evidently the third-born , after his great-grandfather . |
| 14 | At which point Malcolm explains that he was merely pretending , in order to test his countryman , who might have been an emissary of Macbeth 's : Duncan had trusted his kinsman , and host , and been murdered for his pains . |
| 15 | Williams doubts whether he was really influenced by his teachers or contemporaries at the Slade . |
| 16 | Gide contends that he was virtually blackmailed into leaving Athman behind . |
| 17 | This suggests that he was already intended for a career in the Church . |
| 18 | The indenture suggests that he was then approaching the end of his career . |