Example sentences of "[that] he was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old man 's surprisingly bright grey eyes held him and Hope knew that he was facing an honest man and felt bucked that his own present character was worthy of it . |
| 2 | At the end of the hallway he turned a corner and saw that he was facing a dead end , doorless apart from a fire exit , the walls dappled with scabs of paint and sick yellow neon light . |
| 3 | Duvall was jerked away from Jimmy , spinning on his heels so that he was facing the office door again . |
| 4 | Then he swung round so that he was facing her . |
| 5 | He raised with me certain personal problems that he was facing and I asked him to come to my regular constituency surgery to discuss matters in more detail . |
| 6 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 7 | He saw from the look that crossed Tuathal 's face that he was understood , even before he himself tossed someone his reins and , dismounting , walked down through the men , rallying them ; stopping to talk to the wounded ; lifting from the food-baskets some bread and a piece of mutton in passing . |
| 8 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 9 | Unhappily I must add that he was deposited somewhat ignominiously in a cardboard box with Piltdown Man ! |
| 10 | He made it plain , quite quickly , that he was poised to adore Anna . |
| 11 | I believe that he was made a partner as soon as he had finished his degree — but that may be pure conjecture on my part . ’ |
| 12 | It was within his own mode of religious discourse that he was made aware of the need to travel in a certain spirit and to think and act in accordance with specific religious and ethical criteria to which he gave the name Truth . |
| 13 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 14 | It emerged yesterday that he was made bankrupt two weeks ago today for failing to pay his solicitors for work they had done . |
| 15 | Early in March Mr Schuller announced that he was bringing a Seattle minister , the Rev Bruce Larson , to Garden Grove as his ‘ co-pilot ’ . |
| 16 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 17 | Seeing Harry coming down the wet , narrow street , she knew straight away that he was bringing bad news . |
| 18 | Claudia lifted her arms , putting them round his broad shoulders , hardly conscious that he was divesting her of her jacket and blouse . |
| 19 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 20 | Jezrael leant lower over him , straining to hear the words that he was straining to tell . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
| 22 | Some thought that he had been paid to attack the Visigoths by Gaiseric , king of the Vandals , who were now settled in North Africa ; others that he was making good a claim to be the husband of princess Honoria , daughter of Valentinian III , or that he was intervening in a dispute over the succession to the kingship of the Franks . |
| 23 | It was at Brives-la-Gaillarde that he was elevated to the kingship , and it was from the cities of Aquitaine that he received the oaths of loyalty , which most kings must have taken by proxy . |
| 24 | He fell asleep soon after three o'clock , and dreamt that he was stuffing a red draught-excluder with sausage meat . |
| 25 | Leapor rejects Swift 's view : Strephon , having secured his wife 's money , offers the feeble excuse for his dissipated behaviour that he was mistaken about her physical charms before they were married : |
| 26 | If he thought he could scare her with his stupid little threats , he would soon find out that he was mistaken ! |
| 27 | Once I was able to escape from my orange box and ferret around among the other barrows , I quickly discovered that he was reckoned by the locals to be the finest trader in the East End . |
| 28 | Fowler-Troon caught her eye and smiled apologetically , as if aware that he was stalling . |
| 29 | In other cases , where he was not present , we know that he was contradicted by contemporary sources . |
| 30 | This was the first time he had ever talked about himself , so she knew it must be very important and felt flattered that he was confiding in her . |