Example sentences of "[adv] he [be] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 2 | Perhaps he was told that his wife was suddenly taken very ill ; was dead , even . |
| 3 | Napoleon III was an innovator , not merely a man of his time but frequently one who was ahead of it , and so he was determined that his Court would deliberately eschew the rigid exclusivity which was the hallmark of the traditional European court structure . |
| 4 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 5 | Already he was arguing that these three different ideologies were facets of the same truth . |
| 6 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 7 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 8 | Now he is proving that he can do it here with 55-yard boundaries , and when he is batting with Paul Parker , another incredibly fast man between the wickets , it is going to be very difficult for sides to control them . ’ |
| 9 | Now he is saying that he killed Caesar for his greater love of Rome than for Caesar ie he killed Caesar for the ‘ general good ’ . |
| 10 | Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt . |
| 11 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 12 | Now he was saying that although we were too young to talk of real love he hoped we would see each other alone and not always surrounded by friends . |
| 13 | So far he 's concluded that the typical victims are intelligent and creative , but have not achieved much in their lives , are usually stuck in dead-end jobs or unemployed . |
| 14 | the different parts of the lump and today he was told that the second biopsy was clear it 's not malignant |
| 15 | Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ? |
| 16 | Yet only weeks ago he was saying that existing derelict land was needed for greening the cities , and providing amenities for citizens . |
| 17 | Then he noticed an open gate and beyond it a side door which he approached ; here he was told that his tickets were only good for the front door while the side doors were reserved for members . |
| 18 | Once there he was informed that his application was being looked upon favourably , and very shortly he could expect to hear that he was to report to Cranwell to begin his Officer Training Course . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe he is thinking that today he will loose his freedom . |
| 20 | You know when he 's suggest that I thirty three years ago |
| 21 | Erm , not necessarily complain but interview police officer about when he was told that upsets my mother |
| 22 | Yet he 's found that several other farmers have been experiencing the fecund year . |
| 23 | Yet he was to say that the entire enterprise of The Cantos was undertaken so as to uncover the reasons why war happens , so as to preclude its happening again . |
| 24 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |
| 25 | He went inland to Hufuf , where he was informed that Ibrahim was near Dara'iyyah , and decided to join a convoy that was going to his camp . |