Example sentences of "[vb pp] that he [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 2 | Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself ! |
| 3 | This is a convoluted way of achieving a just result , and the law should be that the defendant should be proved to have realised that he was dealing with a policeman , or was reckless about the matter . |
| 4 | She stopped again then said wryly , ‘ When I saw you and gradually realised that he was attracted to you I naturally became jealous . ’ |
| 5 | The 62-year-old bishop later explained that he was quoting from a book called How To Be A Wally . |
| 6 | Then probably you have not heard that he was sent for last night just before Compline , to go to Donata , at her express wish . |
| 7 | I have heard that he was saddened by these writings of Fernanda Eberstadt 's , in which his own writings are faulted . |
| 8 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 9 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 10 | It was later generally accepted that he was suffering from multiple neurofibromatosis ( von Recklinghausen 's disease ) , a very rare and incurable disease characterized by the tendency to form neurofibromas ( tumours of the nerve and fibrous tissue ) . |
| 11 | The manager of the Ljubljana branch of the Belgrade Bank has revealed that he was asked by a high official of the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina to purchase 3 billion dinars of Agrokomerc bills of exchange ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 12 | The previous week 30 of the country 's 60 examining magistrates had been dismissed , and the Attorney General of Antioquia province , the principal negotiator of the surrender of the Medellín drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria in June [ see p. 38283 ] , had resigned after it was revealed that he was related to Gaviria . |
| 13 | Asked about apparent defections from his cause , he claimed never to have said that he was counting on anybody . |
| 14 | It was said that he was retired from the army , the navy , the civil service and the BBC . |
| 15 | Had he said that he was going to his death in Lucifer 's inferno ? |
| 16 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 17 | His eagerness to please ensured that he was put upon , and judging by the worn state of his clothes she guessed he was paid a pittance for it . |
| 18 | We are then told that he is sitting outside the church built to the dedication of Saint Francis ‘ Brother of the poor ’ . |
| 19 | An inquest on Grant Mann has been told that he was shot in the head at close range . |
| 20 | I enquired what seemed to be wrong , and after a little embarrassing silence was told that he was suffering from a stoppage of urine . |
| 21 | It may be noted here , however , that all the sources are agreed that he was buried in Edirne , Mecdi , in his being the first to give the precise location of his grave , namely " outside the of the Darulhadis mosque in Edirne " . |
| 22 | On seeing them escape , Shovel requested that he be shot with his own pistol , rather than return in disgrace . |
| 23 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |
| 24 | It was alleged that he was enlisted by North in November 1985 to help send Hawk missiles through Israel to Iran . |
| 25 | It is understood that he was beaten with a wooden post before he was stabbed . |
| 26 | You may recall that Bachop was outstanding during the World Cup , but it should be noted that he was playing for Western Samoa , not New Zealand . |
| 27 | It was widely rumoured that he was adopted by the Ceauşescus in 1946 . |
| 28 | During his visit Kerrey made it known that he was campaigning for the lifting of the US economic embargo against the SOC and for increased investment and aid by US non-governmental organizations . |
| 29 | She had known who he was by then , had known that he was returning to the King with assurances of her father 's support . |
| 30 | However , the new minister on arrival soon found that he was faced with a seemingly impossible task . |