Example sentences of "[be] [that] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First impressions are that he offered them a recipe of component parts from many different guitars and the result is a sort of nouvelle cuisine which leaves this weary plucker scratching his head . |
| 2 | Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction . |
| 3 | Defence lawyer Tony Cinnamond said , however , that Wightman 's recollection of the events were hazy due to drink and it could have been that he struck her and her head banged against the wall . |
| 4 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 5 | Ms Armstrong considers Mr Fallon to be sexist : the reason appears to be that he called her a woman . |
| 6 | The outcome will be that he claims he can book you a flight only to the international airport on Sal Island . |
| 7 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 8 | What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat . |
| 9 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 10 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |
| 11 | All I know is that he thought you would be pleasantly surprised . ’ |
| 12 | What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’ |
| 13 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 14 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 15 | If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ . |
| 16 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 17 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 18 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 19 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 20 | The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again . |
| 21 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 22 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 24 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 25 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 26 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 27 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 28 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 29 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |