Example sentences of "[noun] [that] he [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 2 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |
| 3 | Anyway , there is no hint that he gave her any encouragement at all . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Garscadden said last week that he finds it incomprehensible that many properties may stay in the same band in perpetuity . |
| 5 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |
| 6 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |