Example sentences of "[noun sg] shows that he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | His death certificate shows that he was found on the floor of his cow house on Christmas Eve 1887 , a day before his 71st birthday , having died from a heart attack . |
| 2 | There is a reference in a letter from one of his dependents that he eventually took a passage home from Corfu on a naval vessel in 1843 ; and that an 1851 census shows that he was living with his wife and two of his daughters at Longhorsley , his birthplace . |
| 3 | His surviving work in the Bury Bible shows that he was worthy of the admiration which the written sources accord him . |
| 4 | His remark comes from book 67 of his commentary on the edict , and palingenesia shows that he was discussing an interdict , most likely the interdict quod legatorum which was available to the bonorum possessor to recover property which a possessor was purporting to hold under a legacy . |
| 5 | I 've heard , unofficially , ’ Brompton-Smiley was proud of his network of contacts and could never resist reminding his employer of them , ‘ very unofficially , that the postmortem shows that he was got at . ’ |