Example sentences of "that he was [pron] " 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 | ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him . |
| 9 | He was a man in torment who finally decided that he was what he did , and not what anyone said he was . |
| 10 | Not that he was what you 'd call forthcoming . |
| 11 | Mr Major explained how he was carrying on the principles of his predecessor and pointed out that he was her seconder in the leadership ballot and regretted that she had not stayed on . |
| 12 | From the facial resemblance there was no doubt that he was her son . |
| 13 | Then someone said , ‘ Should n't you like a closer look at your little brother ? ’ and she realized oh , make it not true — that he was her brother … |
| 14 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 15 | Although Paisley drove Doherty to his first meeting with Murdoch and Marshall , there is no evidence that he was himself involved in the discussions . |
| 16 | Louis-Napoleon made it plain that he was himself sure that the main result of the establishment of universal suffrage would be his own success . |
| 17 | Forcing a litigant to settle with a judge who had usurped jurisdiction , in order to avoid still higher costs in a superior court , was not likely to have enhanced the popularity of the regality court of Glasgow , and , quite apart from the fact that he was himself injured by Sproull 's actions , Montrose had little choice but to remove the bailie-depute at the first opportunity . |
| 18 | The difficulty in determining the motive for Baldwin 's decision is that he was himself as contradictory about this as lie was clear about where and how he took it . |
| 19 | I 'm not certain why I should remember this unless it was perhaps my first , unacknowledged , awareness that he was himself and not another ; and that that self was , in a dignified , quiet way , reaching out to me . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Eliot at once sent him a cablegram , saying that he was one to whom all contemporary poets owed a debt . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Culpeper achieved fame as he gave his name to a certain type of tripod microscope made in the early eighteenth century , but it is not at all clear that he was its inventor . |
| 25 | She knew by the expression on his face that he was hers , and she was confident her sexual ability could keep him happy until she was ready to move on . |
| 26 | He was really concerned for the crowds because he knew that he was their only hope . |
| 27 | Is it true that he 'd forgotten that he was their father ? |
| 28 | The Gowrie faction guarded James for almost a year , issuing decrees in his name while claiming that he was their willing guest . |
| 29 | As Paul Preston writes , " the United Nations had given [ Franco ] a winning hand to play , allowing him to persuade the Spanish people that he was their heroic leader in yet another foreign attempt to destroy Spain " . |
| 30 | No just that he was you know , just a bit concerned that 's the logo thing and I thought well what does it look like ? |