Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before this interrogation , he had reluctantly agreed to allow his wife to conduct it , being unable to argue against her contention that if he were to perform that duty , his questioning would inevitably be biased in the girl 's favour . |
| 2 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 3 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 4 | Frightened by the threat of invasion ( Fears in Solitude ) , he was beginning that slide or jump to the Right which angered and puzzled his liberal associates , though it is fair to say that his revolutionary sympathies , unlike Wordsworth 's , had never been more than superficial . |
| 5 | At Canton his early success , as commercial agent for opium merchants in India , led to his association with Magniac & Company , and by 1826 he was controlling that firm 's Canton operations . |
| 6 | The ticket he was presented that morning by the silent man in the medium-grey gabardine raincoat was just another ticket . |
| 7 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 8 | Anyhow , he was gone that weekend ; |
| 9 | He added that we must be his guests at the great banquet he was holding that night for other Scottish lords who had come south with him . |
| 10 | Now , he was holding that microphone up to the nearest wall and scanning it , adjusting his headphones . |
| 11 | When he was holding that boat . |
| 12 | Thing is , he was christened that way , and he hates the whole moviestar bit . |
| 13 | It was while he was besieging that town that the king contracted a fatal illness . |
| 14 | And so Mr. Green , I think it was Chris Green , had to he was chairing that meeting and had a double vote . |
| 15 | Then I heard Chet using his on some records and started investigating and found out how he was getting that sound . |
| 16 | He was getting that Mary Celeste feeling . |
| 17 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 18 | He was over the legal limit , he was driving that car and he killed that little girl . |
| 19 | Unfortunately he was told that tradition would not allow it . |
| 20 | He was told that out-patient treatment was enough for him . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |
| 22 | They both rejected the practice which had grown up since the decision of Slade J. in In re Castle New Homes Ltd. [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1075 , whereby if the liquidator had sued or decided to sue he was refused that order ; if he had not done so but was seeking information to enable him to sue he was granted an order . |
| 23 | And whilst he was doing that operation where was P C ? |
| 24 | cos he he thought he was a mechanic because he was doing that sort of work . |
| 25 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |
| 26 | He was persuaded that disunity in the church was displeasing to heaven and bad for the empire 's success and prosperity . |
| 27 | window and I sort of pinged the cat 's tray , you know , if I shut the door and walked back in and hid the paint on the side , and on a couple of occasions he was painting that window and suddenly this cat appeared outside |
| 28 | ‘ Youse can be at the codding , when youse like , ’ he mumbled thickly , ‘ but if this auld one in here — ’ he tapped the coffin with his glass — ‘ if this fella wants to , I tell ye , he 'll be sittin' up as bright as ye like and be givin' us all the ‘ Lark ’ , just as he was doin' that night when — ‘ |
| 29 | ‘ How do you know he was murdered that night ? ’ asked Blanche . |