Example sentences of "[verb] that he [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of people , including many members of the press , thought that Allan was going to win , were almost praying that he was going to win . |
| 2 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 3 | Schein 's Diletti pastorali are more frankly madrigalian and they suggest that he was acquainted with Monteverdi 's Seventh Book of 1619 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I do know that he was threatened . ’ |
| 6 | Where a defendant states that he did not know that he was disqualified this will not amount to a defence Taylor v Kenyon [ 1952 ] 2 All ER 726 . |
| 7 | The party who supplies the infant does so at his peril ; it will not avail him that he did not know that he was dealing with an infant , or that he thought that his position in life was such as to make the goods necessary , or that he did not know that the infant was already sufficiently supplied . |
| 8 | He did n't talk about groups he was involved with but I did know that he was playing with a group . |
| 9 | It makes it clear that a shopkeeper who sells cigarettes to young people can not simply say that he did not know that he was doing so . |
| 10 | Elaine still did not know that he was going to lose his job . |
| 11 | She glanced at him , noticing that he was staring back through the partly open door of the study . |
| 12 | In the 1870s he demonstrated that he was keeping abreast of developments in analysis too , with a paper on Georg Riemann 's new approach to integral calculus . |
| 13 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 14 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 15 | Certainly the Pentagon knows it 's already under investigation , but Hawkins did n't want anyone to know that he was pointing fingers in certain directions . |
| 16 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 17 | It is good to know that he was thought so highly of and that we have so many friends . |
| 18 | . And then as we were beating you see , inside , through the bushes and all , and a pheasant got up , and we used to shout , , do you see , for them to know that he was coming . |
| 19 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 20 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
| 21 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 22 | Premadasa on Aug. 30 countered an attempt in Parliament to impeach him , by announcing that he was suspending Parliament until Sept. 24 . |
| 23 | After a second beer , Dr Reid prepared to leave , explaining that he was going to the dispensary . |
| 24 | The family believes that Jacqueline used to pave the way for Iain 's escapes by writing to the school , explaining that he was needed at home . |
| 25 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 26 | He had forgotten that he was watching an exhibition . |
| 27 | He maintained that he was thinking about gold and the strange fascination this metal still exerts upon otherwise rational men grappling with the intricacies of international exchange rates . |
| 28 | Hsu 's monograph suffers from the converse limitation ; the author expressly claimed that he was studying members of his own society but , by the ordinary criteria used by social anthropologists , he was not doing an ) " thing of the sort . |
| 29 | He even pretended that he was having an affair with a younger woman . |
| 30 | Police say that he was kicked and punched by four people and struck about the head with a wooden object . |