Example sentences of "[noun sg] he was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the Portadown man was about to leave the jail he was told that his mother had died and ordered back to his cell . |
| 2 | Well it 's funny because erm , when we saw Ken the other day he was saying that erm his niece rang him up and erm she 's er she 's gon na be in Crewe this weekend for a friend 's wedding and , I think she must be coming up with some , some other girl as well , because the two of them , he said , I 'm taking two young ladies out on Sunday for lunch where 's a good place for a Sunday lunch you see ? |
| 3 | On the one hand he was receiving advice from Cardinal Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ) that he should steer clear of theological issues ; on the other he was advised that Cardinal Bellarmine would welcome his comments on a passage in Psalm 18 that appeared inconsistent with Copernican doctrine . |
| 4 | For it was on the night he was betrayed that he took bread and broke it and said : ‘ This is my body for you ’ . |
| 5 | In this respect he was confirming that what the movies did best was to tell stories as effectively as they could without wandering too far from the values of the old nineteenth-century themes . |
| 6 | Well it 's just that it 's the Chief Constable 's case that when er er sorry when was got from his bed he was told that he was being arrested for harbouring and escapee Lawrence . |
| 7 | No , and of course he was running that along the seat |
| 8 | In due course he was told that a short three hour trip was in the offing so he collected his parachute and went with the crew to the aircraft . |
| 9 | Miguel stood where she had left him , outlined against the star-studded sky , and there was something about the way he was standing that reminded her of someone else … |