Example sentences of "that he [was/were] [verb] [art] " 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 | Duvall was jerked away from Jimmy , spinning on his heels so that he was facing the office door again . |
| 4 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 5 | I believe that he was made a partner as soon as he had finished his degree — but that may be pure conjecture on my part . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Early in March Mr Schuller announced that he was bringing a Seattle minister , the Rev Bruce Larson , to Garden Grove as his ‘ co-pilot ’ . |
| 8 | He fell asleep soon after three o'clock , and dreamt that he was stuffing a red draught-excluder with sausage meat . |
| 9 | ‘ He admitted in the end that he was suggesting the break for my sake , and I told him how I felt about that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 12 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Announcing the changes , Lacalle stated that he was creating a " special cabinet " , comprising de Posadas , Ache , Braga and Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Alvaro Ramos Trigo , to supervise the restructuring of Uruguay 's industrial sector and to make it competitive in the planned 1995 four-member South American common market , Mercosur [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 15 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although O'Keefe announced that he was taking no action against Howard , he emphasized a variety of measures which were being adopted in order to improve naval attitudes towards women and to facilitate future investigations of such incidents . |
| 18 | Anyway , one day he shouted to her that he was taking the bike out , she was in another room doing something , and minutes later he was dead . |
| 19 | He raised his arm and a man came from the buildings at the side of the field , and it was soon apparent that he was taking the car away . |
| 20 | ‘ He put the proposition to us that he was forming a unit that would operate behind the lines . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On Aug. 26 Razanamasy announced that he was forming a 24-member government which included two senior military officers , most ministers being " unknown " technocrats . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Baker said that he was referring the case after new examination of the forensic evidence given at Ward 's trial by government scientists , who were also involved in the cases of the Guildford Four , the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six . |
| 26 | It was not until the year of his death that he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and awarded an honorary LLD by St Andrews University . |
| 27 | Ben had been made a Companion of Honour in the Coronation Honours List and the very fact that he was writing an opera for the Coronation created jealousy in some quarters . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I knew that there was a problem and made a note of it erm that it was hereditary and that he was seeing a consultant , but there 's other parts of the C C Q that would actually relate to that and go into it in a lot more detail |
| 30 | Thus the philosopher René Descartes ( 1596–1650 ) insisted that he was discovering the ‘ laws that God has put into nature . ’ |