Example sentences of "[vb -s] that he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds that he was fortunate with his timing at PW . |
| 2 | He seems later to have returned ; possibly an attempt on the throne was being planned when he died , for the C text 's statement that Cnut afterwards had him killed is followed by Florence , who adds that he was betrayed by those he held dearest . |
| 3 | He writes that he was determined to exclude ‘ voyages , naval battles , shipboard life , fishing ’ and most of what one expects in nautical yarns . |
| 4 | His mother writes that he was |
| 5 | She writes that he was not keen |
| 6 | The latter writes that he was a muderris in Bursa who then became a kadi , at which point Molla Fenari went to study under Kara Hoca in Iznik . |
| 7 | To this day he thinks that he was accepted into the Royal College chiefly because Minton felt strong sympathy with the macabre apparition he presented . |
| 8 | However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain . |
| 9 | She records that he was somewhat surprised when she announced that she had ‘ just asked for them ’ ! |
| 10 | Another completely unknown actor , also thirty but looking much younger , named Dustin Hoffman , impressed director Mike Nichols so much in his off-Broadway plays that he was running favourite , despite his lack of experience . |
| 11 | ‘ John was very good , ’ said Bob , who had told old Harry Stearns that he was very good in the first place . |
| 12 | Ho 's biographer insists that he was never blamed for the excesses ; the people distinguished between their revered leader and his ‘ entourage ’ . |
| 13 | He puts his arms round her , and insists that he was partly to blame as well . |
| 14 | The story goes that he was watching at home with his wife but after the pile-up occurred , he could stand it no more and went out into the garden for the rest of the race . |
| 15 | John goes further and not only calls Judas a thief but also says that he was chosen by God to perform this evil deed . |
| 16 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , writing in both the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph , says that he was ‘ stunned ’ to learn of Rigoberta Menchu 's success . |
| 17 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 18 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 19 | Leading questions may be asked : for example , if the defendant says that he was not carrying a mackintosh , he can later be asked whether his host put his mackintosh on a peg in the hall or where else ? |
| 20 | Ecgfrith , his successor , is given a reign of fifteen years in the Northumbrian regnal list , but Bede says that he was killed on 20 May 685 in his fifteenth year ( HE IV , 24 ) , and that Ecgfrith was indeed in his fifteenth year in 685 is confirmed by the inscription at Jarrow which records the dedication of the church on 23 April ( which fell on a Sunday in 685 ) , a month before his death , in his fifteenth year . |
| 21 | Bede says that he was in exile for the purposes of study and he subsequently described him as a most learned man ( HE V , 12 ) . |
| 22 | His date of birth has to be inferred from the preface to the third ( 1709 ) edition of his Compleat Course of Chymistry , in which he says that he was then seventy-eight . |
| 23 | He himself says that he was ‘ del ordre de freres menours ’ , and that he was ‘ ordenours ’ , which probably means that he had the right to administer absolution ( a right much sought after by the mendicants ) . |
| 24 | The Encomiast has him beheaded by Earl Eric personally , while Florence says that he was killed in London at Christmas 1017 and that Cnut ordered the corpse to be left unburied . |
| 25 | Eadwig , who bore , or affected , a royal name , looks like a significant figure , and Florence says that he was eventually reconciled with Cnut . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , Hermann says that he was generous to them , and the Bury Psalter and the Bury Gospels , both of which seem to have been produced in Christ Church Canterbury , were possibly commissioned by him as gifts . |
| 28 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 29 | He says that he was an ambassador for power boat racing , and for his country . |
| 30 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |