Example sentences of "he [vb past] [that] he be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his own distress , he realised that he was in danger of abandoning his self reliance , and making a friend of Merymose . |
| 2 | ‘ The morning after he admitted that he was in love with another woman , I lay on our bed as if suspended in space . |
| 3 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |
| 4 | He stated that he was in favour of Quebec remaining as part of Canada under the principle of " 10 equal provinces " , i.e. without " distinct society " provisions . |
| 5 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 6 | He had three functions in which he knew that he was at home . |
| 7 | He knew that he was in the presence of one of the few men he might recognize as an equal , a kindred spirit . |
| 8 | In his younger days , he had been a middle-weight Army boxing champion , and now he dreamed that he was in the ring again , with a right-cross from a swarthy , swift-footed opponent smashing into the left-hand side of his jaw . |
| 9 | He dreamed that he was amongst dark waters , on a mudbank just above the surface . |
| 10 | As he was bringing it to his ear , he remembered that he was in his own apartment , alone . |
| 11 | He dreamt that he was in the coils of a giant worm , and when he woke he found the bedclothes wrapped tightly around him . |
| 12 | He dreamt that he was in Fagin 's house again , and could see the old man sitting in his corner , whispering to another man . |
| 13 | He said that he was under pressure from his own supporters to change radically the government 's approach to the economic problems . |
| 14 | He said that he was against that . |
| 15 | P'raps they 've gone blackberryin' , he thought and for a fleeting moment he wished that he was with them . |
| 16 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |