Example sentences of "him that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told him that was quite unnecessary , ’ Beeson said . |
| 2 | Even as Philip pushed the boy to the ground he could n't believe it was him that was doing it . |
| 3 | It was n't him that was worrying the sheep . |
| 4 | ‘ O Lord my God , if I have done this , if there be iniquity in my hands , if I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me ’ leapt out from Psalm 7 and so did ‘ Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end ’ . |
| 5 | He ‘ had a frank and easy way with him that was very taking … |
| 6 | Reason told him that was all nonsense ; but reason was being steadily eroded by a terrible unnatural fear over which he was losing all control . |
| 7 | ‘ Him that was in the Merchant Navy . ’ |
| 8 | I told him that was precisely why he should play it , because it touched him , reached into his character , asked questions as boxers do when staring each other down . |
| 9 | She recited a poem to him that was well-known in the district . |
| 10 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 11 | One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason . |
| 12 | Liz wanted to get on to the exciting bits , in which Job demanded why light was given to him that was in misery , and life to the bitter in soul : in which Job desired to argue with his God : in which the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind : but she knew it would be cheating to miss out the she-asses and skip to the livelier parts , so she plodded dully on with the dull narrative . |
| 13 | But no , she let him tell her what to do — him that was the cause of it all — and what does he do but fix up for her to go and see this Dr Graham ? |
| 14 | Ben studied the man as he talked , aware of a strength in him that was somehow more than physical . |
| 15 | He wanted to dissipate it and leave her with a last impression of him that was not totally unpleasant . |
| 16 | She wished she could tell him that was nonsense but she feared Pascoe 's death was confirmation of something she had imagined , not proof of something she had found incredible . |
| 17 | There was nothing about him that was n't unpleasant . |
| 18 | Which uncle had told him that was a fatal mistake ? |
| 19 | She did n't tell him that was the only way she had been able to cope with his absence , by blocking him out completely and refusing even to acknowledge his existence . |
| 20 | He smiled coolly , and it was a smile that somehow managed to convey a ruthless hardness in him that was n't used to compromise and was n't going to start now . |
| 21 | The part of him that was so completely different from her own . |
| 22 | It was easy to see that his roots went down fathoms deep in this soil , and transplanting would have destroyed everything in him that was of quality . |
| 23 | Though there was one side to him that was irritatingly consistent . |
| 24 | There was an air of command about him that was quite alarming . |
| 25 | One thing about him that was probably on the plus side : he had the ability to drain away her tension and make her feel better . |
| 26 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 27 | Despite his casual dress of jeans and shirt , there was still an air of sophistication about him that was in sharp variance to those around him , and she cursed Donal again for his stupid sense of humour because it now put her in the most ridiculous position . |
| 28 | How to tell him that was not why she was being poky ? |
| 29 | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she was n't here to wait on him — particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable . |
| 30 | What I said to the Prime Minister was that he should answer that part of the question to him that was in order . |