Example sentences of "[adv] that he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 2 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 3 | It will also help him set the stock level for each item , so that he has sufficient stock , but not too much . |
| 4 | Only that he had more money than he could count , but she knew that already . |
| 5 | It 's just that he went one way and I went another . |
| 6 | It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company . |
| 7 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 8 | Not that he harboured any sympathy for that foolish act . |
| 9 | Not that he anticipated great trouble — most of the fell people were there to entertain themselves in ways which might appear rough and sound loud but came from characters largely tolerant , polite , gentle , qualities widely commented on , coming from the ease of great and graceful physical strength , the pacific , solitudinous nature of the daily lives , and a long experience of continuing community . |
| 10 | But Genesis delivered the coup de grace , for it was stated that God had rested on the seventh day , not that he had immediate y started work on other worlds . |
| 11 | He was running away — not that he had any need . |
| 12 | Not that he wished any harm to Rose , and it was n't as if she would be on her own because , being the wife of Peter , and he the stable man , she was well set in their cottage . |
| 13 | The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues . |
| 14 | Not that he has any ambitions to be thought high-brow . |
| 15 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 16 | The Secretary for Constitutional Affairs , Michael Sze , said yesterday that he hoped Sino-British talks could start soon to end a long-running row over Hong Kong 's future which has shaken the colony . |
| 17 | A Prague newspaper said yesterday that he weighed 36 stone . |
| 18 | It was an hour later that he heard light footsteps and watched the handle turn . |
| 19 | He was so fed up that he put another penny to the one earned for a whole day 's labour and went to the pub where he drowned his sorrows in a pint . |
| 20 | Franco , however , had already shown clearly that he wanted total victory and now indicated that he would contemplate nothing short of unconditional surrender . |
| 21 | De Klerk dismissed suggestions that he ca n't control his security forces by pointing out that he appointed 10,000 police officers last year , and claims that the new influx will go a long way in helping subdue township unrest . |
| 22 | Discomfited , Harbour blurted out that he thought Dangerous Corner a wonderful play , absolutely wonderful . |
| 23 | It was deliberately defaced in antiquity , but though we can not read the sculptor 's name we can make out that he carved these figures ‘ and those at the back ’ , the east frieze that is . |
| 24 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 25 | Now that he has these powers , what will he do with them ? |
| 26 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 27 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 28 | It was here that he spotted two men stealing a truck loaded with aluminium scrap . |
| 29 | The EC 's delegate to the talks , Pablo Benavides , said afterwards that he thought further talks would be unproductive and that the two parties should refer their dispute to the International Court of Justice . |