Example sentences of "[noun] that he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it would be almost impossible to disprove a claim by the defendant that he had a licence but had lost it and had forgotten from which local taxation office it had been issued . |
| 2 | The cast could n't have come from Stavanger 's teeth : he was wounded in the mouth by a piece of shrapnel during the war , and lost a good many teeth , with the result that he wore a plate with artificial teeth in both upper and lower jaws . |
| 3 | As erm as a doctor , Bill , I have ingrained on my heart Aneurin Bevan 's words when the National Health Service was introduced in this country by the post-war Labour government , against the wishes of my colleagues , and he commented that he would erm cross our palms with silver , and he did that very successfully , with the result that he stifled a lot of opposition amongst some very powerful people , and erm of course when you 're trying to introduce a new scheme such as this and you 're terribly keen that erm it should take off and be successful , you do , of course , cross palms with silver . |
| 4 | It has come into my mind that he needs a wife , one of his own kind , to keep him company . |
| 5 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 6 | Salmon was imprisoned too , along with Andrew Wyke , and was released on condition that he published a recantation , which appeared in August 1651 under the title Heights in Depths . |
| 7 | Herbert Kretzmer wrote in the Daily Express that he heard a voice call out , ‘ Rubbish ’ — to which he himself responded : ‘ Though I find this kind of boorishness both repulsive and depressing I am bound to state that the solitary heckler was probably articulating a mood felt by many . |
| 8 | four days before The Observer published this statement by Wilson , Chapman Pincher wrote in the Daily Express that he had a copy of a DI6 report , detailing the heavy surveillance of Harold Wilson prior to the general election of February 1974 . |
| 9 | And it seems to me that in looking for in Rochester da Rochester 's admission that he wants a woman who is opposite from Bertha |
| 10 | ‘ Until you put it all together for us , we had nothing more than a report from a cab driver that he saw a man and a woman pushing such a barrow along Holborn and up Charterhouse Street . ’ |
| 11 | It was n't until I threatened to bring my men down to discuss it with him at the Swan Inn that he had a change of mind . |
| 12 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 13 | They named Marseille general secretary Jean-Pierre Bernes and midfielder Jean-Jacques Eydelie , who admitted in July that he paid a bribe to three players . |
| 14 | WEST Indies skipper Richie Richardson today dismissed allegations by Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott that he runs a side of ‘ sledgers . ’ |
| 15 | It was with a certain self-indulgence that he adopted a pose of relaxed attentiveness , and put Patricia at her ease by casually offering her 8 cigarette . |
| 16 | Not the least surprising aspect of the Mike Tyson case was the revelation that he has a bodyguard . |
| 17 | ‘ It nearly brought tears to my eyes , ’ confessed Dr Phil Gates yesterday in recalling the moment that he had a polythene bag in front of him which contained £250,000 in old notes . |
| 18 | People say of Monsoon that he has a fortune buried in a burnt-out refrigerator on one of the many little islands standing knee-deep in the sea . |
| 19 | It was n't to take revenge on Kee that he wanted a woman — a want he now confessed to Theo . |
| 20 | Todd Bridges , a star of the television series ‘ Diff'rent Strokes ’ , has been released from jail after a court commissioner declared a mistrial on a charge that he attacked a man with a gun in a cocaine dealing house . |
| 21 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 22 | He faces 3 further charges of driving ehilst disqualified , driving without insurance and an unrelated charge that he robbed a man of £7 in cash in St Mary 's Road on June 30th . |
| 23 | To begin with the obvious , there is no record that he forced a woman to bed against her will — none ; there is no rumble of the stain of real deceit — it seems he always made the rules of the arrangement clear . |
| 24 | But Hirst is also very different from the teenager signed from Barnsley for £200,000 by Howard Wilkinson , overawed by the move , size of Sheffield Wednesday , and so unfamiliar with professional routine that he ordered a plate of bacon butties for his pre-match meal . |
| 25 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 26 | Only those with short memories would subscribe to the notion that he guided a hick club to new heights — Real Sociedad were twice Spanish champions in the early Eighties — but his record was more than respectable . |
| 27 | General Philippe Morillon , the commander of the UN 's forces in Bosnia , said on the same day that he expected a solution soon to the siege of Sarajevo . |
| 28 | A FORMER marine masqueraded so successfully as a policeman that he led a team of real officers on a job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 29 | The defendant will have to explain his default and satisfy the court that he has a defence or counterclaim which ought to be heard . |
| 30 | Paul Hall ( 21 ) , of Ballymurphy Drive , admitted at Belfast Crown Court that he threw a stone which hit Raymond Healy ( 25 ) on the head . |