Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the facts actually were as he believed them to be , he would be entitled to act as he did . |
| 2 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 3 | The inevitable consequence of his marriage was that he forfeited his fellowship , and the security it had given him . |
| 4 | The difference was that he accepted her attempt at consolation , taking her palm between both of his own hands , holding it gently and meeting her compassionate gaze with the glimmer of a smile . |
| 5 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 6 | The result was that he left my flat in a fuming temper , very gruff but very sober , and the broadcast was , I was given to understand , of consummate skill and effectiveness . |
| 7 | Anyway , the upshot was that he demanded there be a committee meeting this Thursday to work out a club strategy . ’ |
| 8 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 9 | The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again . |
| 10 | Beales 's story was that he met his friend in the pub just after 1 p.m . |
| 11 | The real trouble with him , according to the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury , was that he took nothing seriously , that " he turned everything into a joke and made his listeners laugh uncontrollably " . |
| 12 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 13 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
| 14 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 16 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 17 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 18 | Welsh bardic tradition was that he carried his offensive into the heartland of Gwynedd . |
| 19 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 20 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 21 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 22 | Smith was a painful blustering bully of a man whose only redeeming feature was that he knew his job . |
| 23 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 24 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 25 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 27 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 28 | The next thing was that he wanted her to hold the bulge . |
| 29 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 30 | What really mattered was that he loved you and that tomorrow he would be waiting by the beech tree , at seven . |