Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what he probably means is that they set up signs for |
| 2 | What he really meant was that it was not in his interest or that of the intelligence services involved . |
| 3 | Perhaps what he really meant was that they could n't afford not to go to Nunes . |
| 4 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 5 | What he really felt was that Liam Shakespeare had been vaporized . |
| 6 | To be frank , when Pöhl says that a single monetary policy will be unable to take into account the needs of individual regions and countries , what he really means is that the policy will be unable to take these into account if they conflict with Germany 's needs . |
| 7 | What he really means is that he putted like the devil and it was grossly unfair — there is even a feeling that it is ‘ not quite golf ’ to win by superior skill on the greens . |
| 8 | What Freud actually says in Totem and Taboo is the opposite of that , what he actually says is that these feelings are innate , and they are part of an evolutionary heritage . |
| 9 | What he never doubted was that she was listening . |