Example sentences of "[verb] that he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newbon disclosed that he told his former managing director a couple of years ago : ‘ I could get Oxford United very cheaply , ’ — but his boss was n't interested . |
| 2 | Friends of Eliot suggest that he confronted his old friend with the news a day or two before the marriage . |
| 3 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 4 | ‘ Fired — dismissed , ’ she offered a couple of alternatives — only to find that he found her first offering of more interest . |
| 5 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 6 | I was therefore surprised to see that he excluded his own name from the list . |
| 7 | It really did still hurt that he believed her capable of such evil . |
| 8 | He could fancy that he smelt its medicinal tang in the rain-washed air . |
| 9 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
| 10 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
| 11 | He does n't mean anything by it — it just so happens that he inflicts his pent-up frustrations on the person nearest to hand . |
| 12 | He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy . |
| 13 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 14 | Was he implying that he found her desirable ? |
| 15 | We shook hands warmly ; I noticed that he had his old clay pipe in his mouth but there was no tobacco in it as he sucked at it and repeatedly removed the pipe from his mouth . |
| 16 | Mungo noticed that he shaved his black eyebrows . |
| 17 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |
| 18 | We also have the comments of his tutor , Ian Duthie , on the piece , which shows that he found it curious , too . |
| 19 | But we can see that he had something more to work on than the Roman thirst for gold . |
| 20 | The nature of his art hardly allows the sculptor to reject the baser elements so explicitly , but I think we shall see that he makes it clear in his own way that he does so . |
| 21 | I do n't know what his name was , but I was only a little kid like , you know We , we sung that He give us half a crown each , He said do you know on , on the I said oh yes . |
| 22 | One of the things I most remember about 1971 was my favourite artist , Kenneth Noland , deciding that he wanted his annual income to pass through the million-dollar barrier . |
| 23 | Alexander Vass was subtly demonstrating that he chose his own time and his own way of doing things . |
| 24 | In Berlin , Bismarck let it be known that he saw nothing wrong with the proposed solution , though he backed away from too openly supporting it in the face of a general outcry from the other European courts . |
| 25 | The support of the press was seen as being vital and every manager was expected to ensure that he had his local newspapers on his side , but even this was not enough . |
| 26 | Frequently , moreover , there appears to be little concern that advice should be available to the teacher or headmaster , to ensure that he uses what few resources he has to best effect . |
| 27 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
| 28 | I understand that he made it complete . ’ |
| 29 | He appreciated that he got his international chance because of his club and he wanted to give something back . |
| 30 | In the end Maxse 's impatience with and apparent willingness to consider abandoning established institutions meant that he stretched his Conservative credentials to breaking-point , and it is important to note that when at his most extreme Maxse was most isolated . |