Example sentences of "[conj] [that] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There have been suggestions that James owed Gowrie a great deal of money , and contrived the incident to rid himself of the debt ; or that he had homosexual designs on the young man , and had murderously silenced him when rejected . |
2 | Although there is no contemporary account of his methods , except that he surveyed several stretches of coastline from a boat , in general his maps are impressively accurate and much more detailed than anything previously available for most parts of Ireland . |
3 | ‘ I ca n't remember after that , except that he drank several cups of coffee , and some wine and some water after he returned to the table . |
4 | He said we played far to many domestic games , and that he hoped this disater would be a blessing in disguise . |
5 | The court heard Demeke had made two demands : that the plane fly to New York and that he receive political asylum in the United States . |
6 | The barons complained that Henry III had arbitrarily re-afforested woods and lands which had been put out of the forest by the perambulations of 1225 ; that he claimed the wardship of heirs to assarts made within the forest , to the detriment of the overlords in whose lands such assarts had been made ; and that he made frequent grants of the right of free warren in disafforested areas , thereby restricting the free rights of hunting which ought to have been enjoyed by landowners in such districts . |
7 | He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter . |
8 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
9 | It is practically certain that Choerilus had in mind the eastern Ethiopians , and that he combined several passages from Homer ( Odys. 5.283 ) and from Herodotus ( 7.79 ; 7.89 and possibly 3.8 ) to form his fanciful picture . |
10 | Almost nothing is known of his family , childhood , or early education except that his father was private messenger to George IV and William IV , and that he had one sister and two brothers . |
11 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
12 | And that he had that house built , er , like er , before he got in it and it was paid , built and paid for like , you know and that . |
13 | and her voice trailed away , as she simultaneously managed to imply that Brian had the Town Hall in the palm of his hand , and that he had enough money to buy his father a comfortable bungalow in a nice suburb whenever he felt like it . |
14 | I 'm told that unit sales should normally yield about three times the building costs , and that he gets this back within three to five years . |
15 | ‘ All he said was that he was in trouble and that he needed some money to get out of the country . |
16 | I answered in Italian that my father had been an officer in the Austrian army and that he spoke good German . |
17 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
18 | And that he lives next door . |
19 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
20 | And but that he had many things to occupy his mind , and she no less , I think something would have come of it before now . ’ |