Example sentences of "[was/were] that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 2 | ‘ They used their failure to get sponsorship as an excuse to get out , ’ says Mario with understandable bitterness , and what hurt him most was that they strung him along until well into 1976 , despite the fact that he could easily have had another drive . |
| 3 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 4 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 5 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |
| 6 | The only difference was that she understood him now . |
| 7 | There was no laughter now , no mockery , and she went still , wondering how to answer the question , how to explain that the reason was that she loved him . |
| 8 | The incredible thing was that she guessed he had no idea of the impact he made , or simply did n't care . |
| 9 | All she knew was that she wanted him out of her flat — and out of her life — before he managed to do any more harm . |
| 10 | What she was sure of , though , was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being . |
| 11 | The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again . |
| 12 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 13 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 16 | The great advantage of his system , with its reliance upon external characters and analogies , was that it enabled him to make sense of the whole animal kingdom without the lifetime of research which Lardner 's schedule made impossible . |
| 17 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 19 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 20 | The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once . |