Example sentences of "[subord] he [was/were] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't even know if he was killed that Sunday or if he was tortured before he was murdered . |
| 3 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 4 | No but if he was saying that about Hunan well what chance do we stand if we 're not even , you know |
| 5 | Rank 's argument that he needed the studios , the cinemas and the distribution network if he was to ensure that his films performed in foreign markets was , therefore , one that relevant officials were predisposed to accept . |
| 6 | Martin Jackson watched the mating for a short while , the boar 's bulk shoving , the sow bearing him , as if he were seeing that savage , ludicrous event for the first time . |
| 7 | Matza would clearly be wrong , on the other hand , if he were implying that it was inherently impossible for a corrective stance to acknowledge the ‘ patent tenability and durability of deviant enterprise ’ . |
| 8 | Would not my right hon. Friend be insulting British farmers if he were to suggest that he should decimate the financial support available to them so that it could be given to M. Delors for use as a slush fund for so-called cohesion — a bribe to the countries of southern Europe ? |
| 9 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 10 | Sir John , 72 , ordered British Telecom to remove the box from the village green at Rodbourne , near Malmesbury , Wilts , because he was miffed that drivers kept parking by his £250,000 manor house to use it . |
| 11 | In 1016 Æthelred left his levies because he was informed that betrayal was afoot . |
| 12 | It was while he was dithering that the headmaster said : |
| 13 | Paul Mardon 's hopes of clinching a dream £1 million move from Birmingham City to Liverpool have been dealt a major blow after he was told that he needs surgery on an ankle ligament injury . |
| 14 | The coroner adjourned the inquest after he was told that Mrs Probyn 's husband Jonathan had been charged with her murder . |
| 15 | ‘ The manager was told when he was appointed that his was a pressure job and that the pressure would increase with good results or bad . |
| 16 | When he was notified that 200 unemployed marchers were expected from Ampthill , however , he arranged for them to occupy the Drill Hall in George Street for sleeping and feeding . |
| 17 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 18 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 19 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 20 | When he was told that transfer between schools would be possible , and that schools would be encouraged to have a common but diverse curriculum for all eleven-to-thirteen-year-olds , Butler said that he felt ‘ much comforted ’ . |
| 21 | We were not terribly surprised when he was informed that he would only receive the basic amount , since he had been lucky enough to get a golden handshake . |
| 22 | Berkeley 's seventeenth-century predecessors were as anxious as he was to suggest that the regularity of nature is a manifestation of God 's goodness ; but in making an independent material world the cause of ideas , they give God a less crucial role than Berkeley does . |
| 23 | What distinguished the Court of Napoleon III was its brilliance and verve , for he was determined that it should in no way resemble the moribund courts of Europe , stifling under the weight of tradition , except in so far as etiquette and good order must prevail . |
| 24 | Now , just as the long-standing debate had been settled , here was Kammerer adducing experimental evidence in favour of Lamarck 's discredited theory , for he was claiming that the pads had been ‘ re-evolved ’ in a few generations as a direct consequence of the parents being persuaded to mate once more in water ! |
| 25 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |