Example sentences of "that he was [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She just said that he was here when she first came to the Zoo and that he 's been here longer than anyone else . |
| 2 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 3 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 4 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 5 | Stories that he was physically or mentally ill had , in fact , spread rapidly in summer 1942 . |
| 6 | Hall said afterwards that he had not realized himself capable of such sustained accurate bowling , but kept at it simply because Worrell wanted him to ; he also said that he was physically and mentally shattered at the end of it . |
| 7 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |
| 8 | She was glad when Westerfield church hove into view and sensed that he was just as relieved . |
| 9 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 10 | Once Jonadab had threatened physical violence , the son realised that he was more than a match for his ageing parent . |
| 11 | It was true that he was more than capable of all that ; what was more , the measures Merymose described were ones which he would usually have taken instinctively . |
| 12 | Robyn placed her hand over his , lifting it away , realising swiftly that he was more than a little drunk . |
| 13 | I felt sure that he was more than a little drunk , but his voice never slurred or changed from that flat resonance that makes so many Americans sound as though they are speaking over a loud-hailer . |
| 14 | A breath alcohol test reavealed that he was more than three times over the legal limit . |