Example sentences of "that he was [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that that was what I was here for , that he was something special , chosen by God . |
| 2 | ‘ We knew from the start that he was something special . ’ |
| 3 | I mean lunch time we were hearing how , because they stood up for what was right , it was over the killing of soldiers and that , this man job and actually he more or less said that he was something wrong with his head did n't he ? |
| 4 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , she had pursued personal aggrandizement at his expense , a whisper of conscience hinted , until he had learned that he was nothing but a nuisance to her . |
| 6 | He buckled under the final , inescapable realization that he had failed , and would always fail ; that the jeering kids , the mocking men , the scornful tarts , were right ; that he was nothing but a turd in the gutter . |
| 7 | He realized that he was somebody who could control people . |
| 8 | In our Lord 's parable of the lost sheep ( Luke 15:3–6 ) we see that it was as a consequence of counting his sheep into the fold each night that the shepherd discovered that he was one short . |
| 9 | Eliot at once sent him a cablegram , saying that he was one to whom all contemporary poets owed a debt . |
| 10 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 11 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 12 | The man in black lowered his binoculars to reveal that he was none other than the Anti-Rex himself . |
| 13 | Often he could be a very demanding presence at rehearsal , but I ca n't imagine that he was anything but delighted with Beecham 's magically evocative account . |
| 14 | But he had not been able to show anyone , yet , that he was anything but what his father now was : a rich man who did what he liked because he was King and everyone was polite to him . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said he in a tone which suggested that he was anything but . |
| 16 | Never occurred to me that he was anything but Lynda . |
| 17 | For her part , she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand . |
| 18 | There was no doubt in Harriet 's mind that he was someone called Freddie Nash . |
| 19 | All I knew about him was that he was someone who belonged to Jean-Claude 's past , and that Jean-Claude was indebted to him . |