Example sentences of "that he was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other cases , where he was not present , we know that he was contradicted by contemporary sources . |
| 2 | The hints he had thrown out , that he was connected in some illegitimate way with the Hamilton family , could be dismissed as a typical lie told to impress , another Cape Horn . |
| 3 | He was appointed an official painter to the French Army in 1951 , the mounted branches always being favourite subjects ( it was as a Horse Artillery NCO that he was mobilised in 1939 ) . |
| 4 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 5 | Please heaven that she would n't find out that he was involved after all , because something warned her that that would be more than she could ever cope with . |
| 6 | It is now clear — and , in view of the final lines of his letter of 2 June , it was sufficiently plain by then — that he was writing under great pressure : which up to his last years was the condition in which he produced most of his work , including some of his best . |
| 7 | His predecessor , Nicholas Ridley , had favoured the building of Foxley Wood , but his approach to the environment was so unpopular that he was moved to another department . |
| 8 | Although Gregory insisted that he was related to thirteen of his predecessors in the see , his family was most obviously connected with Burgundy and the Auvergne , and a local priest , Riculf , saw him as an outsider . |
| 9 | To be preferred is the Scottish king-list , which claims that he was captured and blinded by King Edgar , dying in Rescobie ( Angus , Tayside ) ; the annals of Tigernach confirm this by noting that he was blinded in 1099 , probably the date of his death . |
| 10 | On the contrary , he was satisfied to feel that he was sharing in other people 's lives . |
| 11 | Born near Doncaster , Edward Kirk lost his hearing through a severe illness when aged 2 , and was sent to be educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where his abilities so impressed the headmaster , the great Charles Baker , that he was kept on first as a classroom assistant , thence from 1871 as a teacher . |
| 12 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 13 | He knew that he was searching for sixteen points of comparison before he could be sure of positive identification . |
| 14 | Then probably you have not heard that he was sent for last night just before Compline , to go to Donata , at her express wish . |
| 15 | Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ . |
| 16 | The manuscript suggests that he was born at some date between 1485 and 1492 , and his latest completed work is dated 1546 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He himself went into the Army , and erm , he was , he was born in a in a little village , and an article in the newspaper that I acquired in Strasbourg , said that he was born in this little village Lom le Soniere his was born to life , but in Strasbourg , where he wrote the National Anthem , he was born to immortality . |
| 19 | Books of reference that state that he was born in 1885 in Devon are mistaken , as they are about some other features of his career . |
| 20 | But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism . |
| 21 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 22 | Although in the case of learning disabilities he accepted that he was dealing with congenital conditions incapable of radical improvement , his regimen called not only for humane treatment but also for an appreciation that disabled people deserved special understanding because of their superior spiritual status . |
| 23 | So , are you saying that Johnson , despite the fact that he was dealing with human types , human beings , was actually more realistic in terms of how the world as a whole works in that , bad people do get away with things if they 're good enough ? |
| 24 | Evans ' team mates are sure to believe that he was tempted into French RU by the pay , reputedly twice that earned by League players there . |
| 25 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
| 26 | The harsh strength in his face did n't weaken , but she saw that he was listening with cold concentration to her words . |
| 27 | For weeks he would live in a world by himself conscious as he watched the humdrum routine of his fellow prisoners that he was destined for higher things and happy in the knowledge that he was not as other men . |
| 28 | She liked Yeats well enough , and although poetry meant little to her , she could see that he was destined for great things . |
| 29 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 30 | But with Blufton the spell , the sense that he was engaged in some elaborate , magical charade , was broken as soon as he began to speak . |