Example sentences of "was [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 2 | The difference with Bill was that he had the power to be able to make his fantasy come true and that he lacked the self control , and the basic decency to say ‘ no ’ to himself and to Mandy . |
| 3 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 4 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 5 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 6 | The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered . |
| 7 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 8 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 9 | ‘ This was exactly what Martinez had planned , and the rumour was that he worked the whole scheme out with Derek Jefferson . |
| 10 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
| 11 | But he pulled thing was sorry thing was that he pulled the one next to the one that he had a toothache in . |
| 12 | Matthew Arnold 's great achievement was that he convinced the younger generation among his readers of the necessity for providing throughout England an abundant supply of public secondary schools for boys and girls , schools which would be intellectually competent , attested by public inspection , and aided both by local authorities and the state . |
| 13 | Tug had forgotten what day it was until he heard the bells . |
| 14 | Walter Robins told him it was because he antagonised the fasties by doffing his cap after evading a bouncer ( Randall used to infuriate Lillee in this way ) ; Barrington , though , was only being his naturally jolly self . |
| 15 | Possibly this was because he distrusted the enthusiasm , sometimes pushed to excessive lengths , which some agnostics felt for the church ( for example their defence of Cranmer 's Prayer Book ) , and Hardy 's enthusiasm amounted almost to love . |
| 16 | In Laverty [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 432 ( CA ) the reason why the victim bought a stolen car was because he thought the accused was authorised to sell it , not in reliance on the fact that it did not have its original number-plates . |
| 17 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 18 | Well , I said , I 'll give it a chance , I said , and if it does n't pay , Cos he was better off than I was because he had the two shops . |
| 19 | It was because he liked the idea of death , because he wanted to talk about it . |
| 20 | It was after he broke the engagement that the real craziness started . |
| 21 | That was before he saw the apple . |
| 22 | ‘ The last I saw of him was as he entered the bedroom , ’ Petion replied . |