Example sentences of "[was/were] that [prep] his " in BNC.
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1 | When they heard this they cried out with one accord that they would do his bidding , and go out with him and fight under his banner , for certain they were that by his good fortune the Moors would be overthrown . |
2 | The result was that on his arrival at Baden Napoleon III found himself surrounded by all the German rulers : the Kings of Württemberg , Bavaria , Saxony and Hanover , the Grand Dukes of Hesse-Darmstadt and Saxe-Weimar plus the Dukes of Nassau and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . |
3 | One fact in the situation , which later emerged from the gossip of Baldwin , Anselm 's man of business , was that on his way to the meeting at Gloucester , Rufus had visited Wilton . |
4 | What he did n't say was that during his father 's last days in 1958 Tony gave him marijuana to ease the pain . |
5 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
6 | In such cases the most that an employer could hope for was that by his treatment of his workers he could obtain some minimal loyalty . |
7 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
8 | What did bother him was that in his duel within McLaren with Prost , the Frenchman , six years his junior , always started with an advantage . |