Example sentences of "[prep] him [was/were] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only human thing that anybody whispered of him was that his wife , the daughter of the Eighth Earl de la Warr , had had to be divorced for granting bedroom favours to another . |
| 2 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 3 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |
| 4 | The trouble with him was that he was utterly astray here . |
| 5 | But what she needed to hear from him was that he found Muriel as off-putting as she did : he certainly did n't like her , Alice knew that . |
| 6 | She realised that the strange thing about him was that he was not drunk . |
| 7 | All I knew about him was that he was someone who belonged to Jean-Claude 's past , and that Jean-Claude was indebted to him . |
| 8 | But Eubank had only harsh words for Piper saying : ‘ The only thing that impressed me about him was that you could see he was thinking about what he was doing . |
| 9 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |