Example sentences of "he that [adj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | His experience of the committee-managed Union convinced him that personal guidance was the safest way to run any enterprise . |
| 2 | Minch had taught him that neither feeling was useful to an eagle unless it was controlled . |
| 3 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 4 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 5 | Bessey was sceptical of the whole approach as little more than revived natural history , and , in order to convince him that scientific ecology was possible , Clements and Pound looked for a method of quantifying their studies . |