Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning ( it was his last case ) said that the term was not fair and reasonable in the circumstances , although he did say that this was a borderline case . |
| 2 | She sat there looking much less pale and thanking God privately that He 'd stopped that horrid war in Finland and brought Charles back to her . |
| 3 | Slowly and carefully , he withdrew the Steyr-Mannlicher .308 hunting rifle that he 'd bought that same afternoon using the cash from the sale of his car and the Firearm Variation certificate that had been issued to Ian Sampson . |
| 4 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 5 | Only one rib had needed replacing and Bonefish apologised that he had fashioned that new one from a piece of his own Madeira wood . |
| 6 | She flew into a rage and vowed she would not accept Silas 's ring until he 'd evicted that bossy , domineering woman from the house in which they would begin their married life . ’ |
| 7 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 8 | Another journalist , the political columnist Alexander Cockburn , once told me that , on balance , he was relived not to have reported on Vietnam because he had observed that those who had , found it difficult to leave the subject alone . |
| 9 | I once heard a very distinguished palaeontologist argue that the base of the Devonian was obviously at one particular level because he had shown that one species of trilobite changed at that horizon into another . |
| 10 | Kryuchkov affirmed the high priority being given by the KGB to combating black-marketeering and organized crime , but not before he had alleged that certain forces were engaged in " economic sabotage " for political ends and were in league with the criminal underworld . |
| 11 | Zen clearly remembered the occasion when he 'd felt that some detail in his office had altered . |
| 12 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
| 13 | The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road . |
| 14 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 15 | Mr Baker was not entirely wrong in wanting a simple , forceful document for parents , though he failed to understand that some difficult issues — the teaching of grammar or Standard English , for example — need careful and detailed explanation . |
| 16 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |