Example sentences of "[prep] he that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was altogether typical of him that his unshakeable beliefs should prevent him continuing to serve in the Government once the Anglo-Irish agreement was signed . |
| 2 | It was characteristic of him that his last work , and his greatest apart from Justification and Reconciliation , was a three-volume History of Pietism ( 1880–6 ) , in which he applied his very considerable erudition to demonstrating that Pietism represented the improper infusion into German Protestantism of alien , Roman Catholic conceptions of the Christian life . |
| 3 | As he pulled the car off the highway into the gas station forecourt , it occurred to him that his only chance now would be if the pump attendant noticed something amiss and called the police after they 'd gone . |
| 4 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 5 | We now have to alter the old consequences and make it quite clear to him that his bad behaviour will have results that are not only not rewarding , but also unpleasant enough to make him relinquish his tantrum . |
| 6 | I doubt if it ever dawned on him that his patient wife would tell him to get stuffed . |