Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , having announced to his prime minister that he hoped to be ‘ a president of national understanding ’ , he was called upon to review a military parade , before proceeding to attend a commemorative mass in the great Gothic Cathedral of St Vitus . |
| 2 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 3 | The press and the experts had put the monkey on his back that he could n't win a major , that he seemed to be ‘ choking on Sundays ’ . |
| 4 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 5 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 6 | It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Only that he seemed to be in a decent position , and that he died . ’ |
| 8 | Only centimetres from his eyes and mouth , the hydra blurred and soaked up his voice so that he seemed to be shouting underwater . |
| 9 | In the course of explaining his various duties to Virginia Woolf he confessed that he seemed to be turning into an " Old Buffer " and wondered if he might not also be guilty of humbug . |
| 10 | She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little . |
| 11 | He was a very successful , very good-looking professional in his mid-thirties — just as Tom Russell was , although that was irrelevant , of course — and to find that he seemed to be interested in her was satisfying somehow . |
| 12 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 13 | Though Amiss was not entirely convinced that Trueman had been murdered , he did feel a sense of unease about the Admiral 's safety , so he was relieved to see that he seemed to be getting on rather better with his committee colleagues than the Sunday experiences had promised . |
| 14 | There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort . |
| 15 | She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest . |
| 16 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |
| 17 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 18 | So deep-rooted were his various obsessions and so pronounced his self-importance that he came to be regarded in some quarters as not merely an individualist but something of a crank . |
| 19 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 20 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 21 | Carson stood in the open quadrangle of tended plants and empty benches that he assumed to be the ‘ garden area in the middle ’ , and looked around . |
| 22 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 23 | Lewis 's popularity was part of this , and it was with more than a scent of victory in the air , victory over the agnostics and freethinkers , that he consented to be involved with the foundation of the Socratic Club in Oxford in 1941 . |
| 24 | They were just little signs warning her that she had failed to keep Fenna the perfect secret that he had to be . |
| 25 | He had told her that he had to be quick on the phone because his literary editor was listening to him . |
| 26 | Now the rumours were widespread about Hitler 's fits and frenzies of rage , that he had to be accompanied everywhere by a doctor specializing in mental illness and Himmler had given orders to allow no one to see him , and that he was wounded and in hospital . |
| 27 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 28 | Boris Mavra , Oxford 's Yugoslavian three , was so exhausted that he had to be lifted out of the boat , though he recovered quickly . |
| 29 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 30 | Delaney scrambled to his feet , lurching from the effects of shock and concussion , knowing only that he had to be sure ; had to see it dead . |