Example sentences of "that he was [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the hallway he turned a corner and saw that he was facing a dead end , doorless apart from a fire exit , the walls dappled with scabs of paint and sick yellow neon light . |
| 2 | The old man 's surprisingly bright grey eyes held him and Hope knew that he was facing an honest man and felt bucked that his own present character was worthy of it . |
| 3 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 4 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 5 | He fell asleep soon after three o'clock , and dreamt that he was stuffing a red draught-excluder with sausage meat . |
| 6 | The coins quietened the men 's agitation in the way that gold can , and Rincewind was amazed to find , half a minute later , that he was holding a little glass portrait of Twoflower wielding a huge notched sword and smiling as though all his dreams had come true . |
| 7 | None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect . |
| 8 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 9 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 10 | He alleged that Gamsakhurdia was behind the raid on the camp , and announced that he was forming a political party to combat the " fascism " of Gamsakhurdia 's Georgia government . |
| 11 | On Aug. 26 Razanamasy announced that he was forming a 24-member government which included two senior military officers , most ministers being " unknown " technocrats . |
| 12 | In a bizarre twist in the saga of the failure of Supercomputer Systems Inc , the company last week announced that it had abandoned efforts to find new investors to keep the company alive — and then Steve Chen immediately announced that he was forming a new company that will seek to create the world 's fastest computer . |
| 13 | In a direct challenge to a December 1990 vote by the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) to retain the one-party system [ see p. 37908 ] , the veteran opposition leader Oginga Odinga announced on Feb. 13 that he was forming the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) . |
| 14 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |
| 15 | The answer is that he was wreaking a horrible revenge for having had his box of leads confiscated that morning , on suspicion that he was attending a job interview . |
| 16 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 17 | Bush also announced that he was ordering the immediate lifting of the alert status of all strategic bombers and had directed their weapons to be put in storage . |
| 18 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 19 | Later the same day Douglas , Duke of Hamilton — frustrated past belief turned up at the Foreign Office in London and informed them that he was seeking an urgent audience with the King . |
| 20 | He might think it best sometimes to pretend that he was enforcing an old and obsolete statute or a mischievous and silly precedent when he was really ignoring it . |
| 21 | He walked and walked , in fair and foul weather , pretending that he was training the young hounds to stay at heel ; and did so . |
| 22 | He went to ground and was n't heard of again until 1975 when word reached the CIA that he was training the Marxist MPLA soldiers in Angola . |
| 23 | Helaf Orbis Ali resigned as Minister of Labour on Aug. 26 and announced that he was leaving the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) to join the United Opposition Front ( UOF ) — an umbrella group including members of the parliamentary opposition and the opposition guerrilla Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) . |
| 24 | De Klerk 's predecessor as State President and leader of the NP , P. W. Botha [ for whose resignation from these posts in 1989 see pp. 36453 , 36837 ] , made known on May 6 that he was leaving the National Party and accused de Klerk of taking " the path of abdication " . |
| 25 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |
| 26 | In his own Board , Melling was none the less able to pursue an off-peak pricing policy , despite criticism from the other chairmen that he was breaking the common front against Ministry interference on pricing . |
| 27 | Instead he announced that he was to lead a National Government . |
| 28 | When Charles appeared for dinner , Diana noticed that he was sporting a new pair of cufflinks in the shape of two ‘ C's intertwined . |
| 29 | This leaves the manufacturer with the problem of proving that his employees were not negligent and that he was using a safe system . |
| 30 | What I suspect is that he was inspecting the binding and moved the candle to study it more closely to see if there was a gap between the cover and its backing : underneath the candle flame the writing must have appeared . ’ |