Example sentences of "[noun prp] that he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman said Mr Wood had opened negotiations with Standard Chartered , a London-based overseas bank , as far back as January , but only told Mr Buxton that he was leaving last Monday . |
| 2 | The appellant , in evidence during the trial , had insisted that he had made it clear to Mr. Burt that he was not a fully qualified accountant , although he had passed some examinations . |
| 3 | A desperately disappointed Shreeves , currently in Cardiff helping Wales prepare for next week 's World Cup qualifier against Romania , was told on Tuesday that he was no longer required at White Hart Lane . |
| 4 | Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous . |
| 5 | Angry deputies of the parliament , the Supreme Soviet , voted 125-16 to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the president 's announcement on Saturday that he was assuming special powers to force through a referendum on who rules Russia . |
| 6 | By Easter week it was clear to Richard that he was making no headway against a well-conducted defence and that in terms of political psychology it was risky to stake his reputation on one big success . |
| 7 | Oh , he told Richard Richard that he was , he was gon na se , he wanted to smack Pete 's face in ! |
| 8 | He 'd never settled back into civilian life , and after telling his family at Wood Burcote in Northamptonshire that he was going camping in France , wrote to say he 'd enlisted with the Croats . |
| 9 | Eccles told the WEA that he was opposed to the establishment of an advisory committee , preferring to leave discrimination between courses to the Responsible Bodies themselves : that was the end of Recommendation 18 . |
| 10 | A m A man named Harold from , and while I was in that hospital with that bit of a gas shell , he er he g fellow came and told me there , to Boulogne that he was dead , killed . |
| 11 | Orton told Ken that he was totally anonymous in his affairs . |
| 12 | They told Austin Farrer that he was a spell-binder . |
| 13 | Then he 'd tell Phil Simpkin that he was having trouble with one of the staff , and she 'd be out on her wiggly bottom before she knew what hit her . |
| 14 | As I understand it , he said that Master Patrick had asked him to advise Miss Senga that he was sage and would be home in a year or two . " |
| 15 | It was noted of Henry I of Germany that he was merry in his cups , but never to the detriment of royal dignity ; and of William I of England that he was so abstemious that he never took more than three cups of wine after dinner . |
| 16 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 17 | There were rumours after he had a stroke last March that he was on the brink of retirement and that he wished to go . |
| 18 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 19 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 20 | He informed the MCC that he was going to build several houses on the ground , leaving only 150 square yards for cricket . |
| 21 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 22 | And yet the night before the wedding his detachment or his melancholy reasserted itself when he told Stanley Baker that he was marrying her only ‘ because she expected it ’ . |
| 23 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 24 | What else could the King have meant when he told MacDonald that he was ‘ the only person who could carry the country through ’ and that he , the King , would strongly advise the leaders of the other parties to support him ? |
| 25 | Then he finally — after months of trying — convinced ex-Bros and Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins that he was worth more than one ‘ embarrassed ’ business meeting . |
| 26 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 27 | They would have been told , all of them , before they left Washington that he was a friend of Harry Lawrence . |
| 28 | THE Irish Republic looked set for an early General Election last night despite claims by Prime Minister Albert Reynolds that he was doing everything possible to avoid a poll . |
| 29 | It was noted of Henry I of Germany that he was merry in his cups , but never to the detriment of royal dignity ; and of William I of England that he was so abstemious that he never took more than three cups of wine after dinner . |
| 30 | I understood Rochester said to Jane that he was n't sure er , his French had spent so many |