Example sentences of "that he was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 32 | Anyone who knew Niki knew , in spite of his denials , that he was at the end of his rope . |
| 33 | 2:1 When after some days he returned to Capernaum , the news went round that he was at home ; 2. and such a crowd collected that the pace in front of the door was not big enough to hold them . |
| 34 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 35 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 36 | If you rule this second topic out of order , and the examiner wished it to be included , the examiner will at least see that you have had the point present in your mind , and will probably-also be brought to see that he was at fault in his wording of the question . |
| 37 | Alexei came forward so that he was at Rostov 's shoulder . |
| 38 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 39 | It was possible that he had forgotten to switch it off last night or that he was at work early , but it was also possible that there had been an intruder . |
| 40 | The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’ |
| 41 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 42 | She could see that he was at a loss for words — which was reason enough for her to be pleased with her impetuous decision . |
| 43 | No application was made for bail after the court heard that he was at risk to himself and others due to the nature of the crime . |
| 44 | Mr Scott 's removal from office was demanded by one shareholder who said that he was at the helm when the company 's finances went in to the red . |
| 45 | that he was at a meeting where Margaret Thatcher was speaking , and he erm made a comment about what the people in his constituency perceived about something , and she got up and said ‘ now that 's totally wrong ’ . |
| 46 | Even way back then , Tuthill knew that he was onto a winner . |
| 47 | He would be able , provided that he was of age , to bar the entail and dispose of the fee simple . |
| 48 | He 'd come to the conclusion that he was of a completely different species to Leila and her people . |
| 49 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 50 | Luke 's superb Greek style and his emphasis on universalism lead many people to believe that he was of Gentile origin with Greek as his native language . |
| 51 | Mr. Burgess answered : ‘ My main reason was I did not consider that he was of a sound disposal mind . ’ |
| 52 | The smith was a freedman , tall and muscular , a Ch'noze whose facial tattoos indicated that he was of the family of a war-leader . |
| 53 | His talons were unadorned , though he had eye tattoos which indicated that he was of the clan of Hanjin . |
| 54 | It is said that he was of a delicate constitution in early life , and was accordingly placed in the care of his uncle , Mr Greener of Hallgarth , near Winlaton . |
| 55 | It seemed inconceivable that he was of the same race as the two vibrancers sitting near him ; inconceivable , too , that they shared his art . |
| 56 | Now Locke you 'll recall had articulated a concept of private property as a natural right , inherent in individuals independently of membership in a civil society and in doing that he was of course trying to mount a case against erm Filmer 's position . |
| 57 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 58 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 59 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
| 60 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |