Example sentences of "that he was [verb] a [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 | He fell asleep soon after three o'clock , and dreamt that he was stuffing a red draught-excluder with sausage meat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On Aug. 26 Razanamasy announced that he was forming a 24-member government which included two senior military officers , most ministers being " unknown " technocrats . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 13 | Instead he announced that he was to lead a National Government . |
| 14 | When Charles appeared for dinner , Diana noticed that he was sporting a new pair of cufflinks in the shape of two ‘ C's intertwined . |
| 15 | This leaves the manufacturer with the problem of proving that his employees were not negligent and that he was using a safe system . |
| 16 | The thought of the twenty-five thousand pounds he had pledged in the belief that he was getting a skilled crew left her too daunted to frame a suitably crushing reply . |
| 17 | And Dyson knew from the depth of humility and reverence in his inflection that he was getting a larger fee than even Lord Boddy . |
| 18 | Despite the joy she had out of being with him on the ‘ Carry On ’ set , she for one thought that he was wasting a great deal of his time . |
| 19 | The Chief Constable 's earlier statement that he was deploying a special search squad to deal with loyalist terrorism is itself not very helpful , when the whole of the city of Belfast is left wide open to roaming terrorists from both sides . |
| 20 | But these inversions were quite different in purpose and effect from those that Pound had practised indiscriminately in his earliest collections , and thereafter castigated ; these were not poeticisms , but indications that he was addressing a sophisticated urban intelligentsia , that of Great War London , just as propertius had addressed the sophisticates of Augustan Rome . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That he was wearing a spanking new snap-brimmed fedora . |
| 23 | Lucky for him that he was wearing a fire-proof suit , and it was only the joins such as between the leg and the boots , where the mask did n't cover the face , eyebrows , nostrils , lungs and wrists that were severely burnt . |
| 24 | Last week he announced that he was to undertake a radical review of public spending and to look at the ‘ nitty gritty ’ of the welfare state . |
| 25 | Leslie told me that he was considering a further transfer to the Special Air Service . |
| 26 | It was because of this interest that he was awarded a Red Cross medal for services rendered to the sick and wounded during the Franco-Prussian war . |
| 27 | Finally , according to the lawyer , it 's likely that he was having a covert affair with a woman . |
| 28 | Salim states that he was having a rough time , and was tired and suspicious of Yvette : he does not say that a tribal god commanded him to leave her . |
| 29 | He said nothing for a minute or two and told the person next to him that he was having a bad dream when the stranger woke him up . |
| 30 | Colborne conceded that he was fighting a losing battle ; a battle against the entire social structure within the palace and the snobbery and jealousy of the Old Guard that surrounded the Prince . |