Example sentences of "he was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | To suggestions that he was implying that the Labour leadership had not been bold enough so far , Mr Edmonds said : ‘ There is something of a hangover from the last election at the moment . |
| 2 | It was while he was dithering that the headmaster said : |
| 3 | In a few years more , he was to decide that it was German blood which ran most compellingly in his veins . |
| 4 | Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt . |
| 5 | But on 21 July , Edward I ordered Jean de Grilly to obey Philip III 's summons and to make ready to perform military service ; but in his reply to the king of France he was to stress that in the 1259 treaty ‘ the certainty of the said service has not yet been found ’ . |
| 6 | Mohammed Mansha , of Croydon Road , Middlesbrough , said : ‘ He was shouting that he was going to kill . |
| 7 | While the reports that IAK sent for the official files expressed no doubt at all , by Thursday he was complaining that he could hardly get the prisoner to mention politics , let alone discuss them . |
| 8 | Oddly , as foreign secretary , Major asked his old school , Rutlish Grammar , to deposit his records in Surrey county archives and keep them secret ; later , as Prime Minister , he was to claim that he could not remember how many O levels he had . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't even know if he was killed that Sunday or if he was tortured before he was murdered . |
| 10 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 11 | He was assured that he would hear in a few days . |
| 12 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 13 | During his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata , he was assured that Japan would continue to support India if it decided to seek an extended funding facility from the IMF . |
| 14 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 15 | Well , Peter 's getting close to retirement , and he was hinting that he 'd like to sell out . |
| 16 | On 30 April , after a number of interviews , at the outset of which he was no doubt cautioned , he was charged that he : |
| 17 | He said he was threatened that his career was finished if he voted against the Government . |
| 18 | He was pretending that the errand was a nuisance , though at the same time he was grinning with pleasure at the thought of taking McIllvanney 's brand new sportsboat to sea . |
| 19 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |
| 20 | In particular , as a first step towards clearing the area , he was suggesting that , as Macmillan had advised , the Cossacks should be handed over to the Soviet authorities , although , as he had made clear to Tolbukhin 's HQ , he could not do this without Gen McCreery 's authorization . |
| 21 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ The manager was told when he was appointed that his was a pressure job and that the pressure would increase with good results or bad . |
| 23 | Like McAllister he was discovering that it was easy to bear the grief and pain of others when you were not emotionally committed to them . |
| 24 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 25 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |
| 26 | He was warned that he would not be so lucky the next time . |
| 27 | Boy was like that , he was hoping that somebody would take him to the place where everybody else was . |
| 28 | He was hoping that such a system of signs , reflecting English usage and grammar , might be acceptable as a tool for teaching to oralist teachers . |
| 29 | At last , he spoke , and asked when Davide was expected , for he was about to receive his marching orders , and he was hoping that her brother would be back as expected , for the summer holidays from the university , so that they could meet before he left . |
| 30 | He was hoping that she would not be left alone after his death . |