Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.

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1 In a rape case the typical defence argument is that the woman consented to intercourse , while in sex murder the defence may be that she provoked him .
2 The outcome will be that he claims he can book you a flight only to the international airport on Sal Island .
3 It could be that you think he 'll say ‘ no ’ or that he 'll raise doubts and practical concerns .
4 I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer .
5 The mutual understanding is that they give him their votes , and he gives them his services , always seeking to prove that he is at the very least as obliging and as diligent as the other " TDs and would-be TDs in his constituency .
6 ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says .
7 The best thing about him is that I like him .
8 What does worry me though , is that I think he still thought it was a ‘ female sex aid device ’ !
9 That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ?
10 The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being .
11 A consequence of Anderson 's greater interest in certain topics of conversation is that it leads him , on occasions , to create conversational confusion .
12 One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him .
13 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 .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The only difference was that she understood him now .
19 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 .
20 The incredible thing was that she guessed he had no idea of the impact he made , or simply did n't care .
21 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 .
22 What she was sure of , though , was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being .
23 The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again .
24 ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
25 It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark .
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 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 ?
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 ) .
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