Example sentences of "that he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
| 2 | Tell the President that you have read about Abd Al-Ru'uf 's allegation that he was tortured , and about his lawyer 's complaint . |
| 3 | He wrote that he was lying on a concrete floor ; he mentioned acute rheumatism , chronic bronchitis ; ‘ My ribs are tight , I have a lot of fever , I cough all the time . |
| 4 | Victor Burgin explained , for example , in The End of Art Theory that he was unwilling to be limited to an aesthetic response to ‘ the art object , which in turn is representative of the sensibility of the artist ’ . |
| 5 | Salim states that he was having a rough time , and was tired and suspicious of Yvette : he does not say that a tribal god commanded him to leave her . |
| 6 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 7 | Roth also explains that he was ‘ educated to believe that the independent reality of the fiction is all there is of importance and that writers should remain in the shadows ’ . |
| 8 | It is made to seem that he was a stranger , a gentleman , a ‘ watcher from the sidelines ’ . |
| 9 | I have heard that he was saddened by these writings of Fernanda Eberstadt 's , in which his own writings are faulted . |
| 10 | That 's why there are contrasting pieces ; not everyone is going to be marvellous with the classics ( Rex Harrison once avowed that he was ‘ no good at Tudor verse speaking ’ ) . |
| 11 | There could be no doubt at all that he was dead . |
| 12 | Henry had already discovered that he was a solicitor and his wife a |
| 13 | Indeed , the fact that he had apparently used an editor from a Manchester newspaper for some of his purposes was latched onto and quoted as a sign that he was ‘ suspect ’ and ‘ disloyal ’ . |
| 14 | He turned to James in amazement and saw that he was enjoying his surprise , as though it confirmed one of his arguments . |
| 15 | The river again , the far bank was nearer but here was a black smooth stretch , he half knew that he was dreaming , he wanted to stop the dream and he wanted to get across , if only he could raise his mouth and nostrils above the swell of the water … |
| 16 | He dreamed that he was amongst dark waters , on a mudbank just above the surface . |
| 17 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 18 | There can be no doubt that he was devoted to his father — his first book , published 13 years later , was dedicated ‘ To the memory of my father : Nathan B. Cohen ’ and there are a number of references to him in Leonard 's work . |
| 19 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 20 | But he was honest enough to say that he was ‘ fascinated ’ by it too ; as he was by all forms of physical violence . |
| 21 | Mythological or not , it has to be emphasised that he was speaking here of a group of poets — Ellenborgen , Hine , Mandel , Purdy , Macpherson , Layton and Cohen — not just Leonard himself . |
| 22 | Here he began to crystallise the wisdom of some of his best poetry , writing and songs ; for it was here that he was reborn , where he truly began to find himself ; where , not least , the music of Greece entered his soul , evoking earlier memories and melodies , combining with them to suggest a new style , a new mystique . |
| 23 | Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim . |
| 24 | He would read it , nod and announce that he was ready to make a concession . |
| 25 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 26 | That he was tall and broad-shouldered , that his hair was fair and thick , his eyes blue . |
| 27 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 28 | This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day . |
| 29 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 30 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |