Example sentences of "that he was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thickened his voice in the wrong places to try and convince us that he was under the influence . |
| 2 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 3 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |
| 4 | At this stage , the Prospect would be anxious to establish that he was under no obligation . |
| 5 | Thus his freedom to father children was subject to the law , even though he could not be allowed to know that he was under restriction . |
| 6 | The fact that he could terminate the hiring meant that he was under no commitment to acquire ownership of the goods . |
| 7 | On Dec. 24 Ershad was finally informed that he was under house arrest " for public safety and public order " and that he was suspected of corruption and abuse of power . |
| 8 | He said that he was under pressure from his own supporters to change radically the government 's approach to the economic problems . |
| 9 | The senator , although not publicly named , issued a strong denial , claiming that he was under attack because of his opposition to Prime Minister Sharif . |
| 10 | Igor Kasatonov , Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , refused to take the oath , saying that he was under the command only of the C.-in-C. of the CIS armed forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov . |
| 11 | The Minister for Public Works in the outgoing government , Giovanni Prandini , a Christian Democrat , was on June 12 warned by Rome magistrates that he was under investigation in connection with the allocation of public funds for the construction of a motorway in the Puglian province of Táranto . |
| 12 | Gianni De Michelis ( Socialist Unity Party , usually referred to as the PSI ) , who had been Foreign Minister in the previous government , was told on July 14 that he was under investigation for corruption . |
| 13 | The secretary-general of the socialists ( PSI ) Bettino Craxi on Dec. 15 received a cautionary warrant advising him that he was under investigation by Milan magistrates for 40 instances of receiving money illegally since 1985 in violation of the law on party finances . |
| 14 | A particular problem which frequently arises is a claim by an employee that even if he must have realised , in accordance with the principle laid down in the Printers and Finishers case , that he was under a duty to maintain a confidence , such duty was in fact overridden by the way in which his employer acted towards the information ie that the employer is estopped from now relying on confidence . |
| 15 | After a parliamentary investigation 's report named him on 3 February , Grenoble 's chief prosecutor called off an anti-Mafia investigation , saying the release of the report had wasted months of work by alerting Pagano that he was under suspicion . |
| 16 | She had forgotten that he was off duty until her vision cleared sufficiently for her to take in the fact that he was wearing a dark suit , the jacket unfastened to reveal a white shirt . |
| 17 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |
| 18 | There was , for instance , Max who , as an early teenager , complained that he was without friends . |
| 19 | Perhaps the devils still did not know who this holy man really was , but they could see that he was without sin . |
| 20 | The next second the light was gone and Martin with it , and Joe stood in the yard oblivious of the fact that he was without a coat and that the cold was seeping through his pullover , for his outer self was no colder than the feeling within him that had been evoked by Martin 's last words concerning his mother . |
| 21 | If she had needed further proof that he was without scruples or morals in his personal life , he had just given it to her . |
| 22 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 23 | He had three functions in which he knew that he was at home . |
| 24 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 25 | Alfred Fry , stage manager of Drew 's company , told the court that he was at the premises in Friar Street when he heard Drew singing at six o'clock ; he also saw and spoke to Drew at 6.15 . |
| 26 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
| 27 | Thus Tony put in more 1st Division appearances for the Palace between 1969 and 1973 than anyone except John Jackson and Mel Blyth , but many Palace fans thought that he was at his best at left-back . |
| 28 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 29 | It was n't Brian 's fault , he could n't really help the fact that he did n't fit in , that he looked , well … strange , or that he was at the back of the queue when the brains were handed out . |
| 30 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |