Example sentences of "he that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | His long memory also told him that this was a moment of his life when he felt a total rapport with Fisher . |
| 2 | We told him that this was a band for full-timers not part-timers . |
| 3 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 4 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 5 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 6 | One idiot tried to shoot past us , but a combination of Paddy 's bulk and John 's succinct turn of phrase persuaded him that this would not be a good idea . |
| 7 | The more he thought about it , the more it became clear to him that this was a job for a real professional . |
| 8 | Scott had told him that this would be possible . |
| 9 | His common sense told him that this was a girl for him , but that sophisticated vision of Julie Murchison kept blurring the scene . |
| 10 | His sensory feedback had not informed him that this was happening even though the tension needed to throw his head back had been tremendous . |
| 11 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 12 | Attlee persuaded him that this was impractical . |
| 13 | I would like to reassure him that this is not unusual behaviour for this fish . |
| 14 | I dashed across to the DC 's house to tell him that this train with several hundred refugees was standing in the station , and some shelter must be found for them . |
| 15 | The Emperor himself ordered its destruction , but even advisers inured to sycophancy were forced to advise him that this was an impossibility . |
| 16 | Agate conceded that one occasionally saw cabinet ministers at the movies , but it was obvious to him that this particular audience had never heard the Mendelssohn , whilst his friend was prompted to comment that it was ‘ the first time they 've ever heard the fiddle ’ . |
| 17 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |
| 18 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
| 19 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 20 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 21 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 22 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 23 | I showed him that this was terrible for me , and he understood . |
| 24 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 25 | Later Marenches said that he had told the Shah to beware of the mullahs and the merchants in the bazaar , but above all to beware of Jimmy Carter , " I told him that this national and international disaster , President Carter , had decided to replace him . " |
| 26 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 27 | It dawned on him that this was precisely the wrong thing to say , but Hrun had already pushed Twoflower away and was reaching for the Luggage … |
| 28 | His heart contracted and the thought struck him that this domestic scene encompassed all he could ever want of life . |
| 29 | She hesitated , but not long enough to show him that this was the simple truth . |
| 30 | Since he had the gall to suggest that employers ' organisations all support the proposals , may I put it to him that this and many other parts of his provisions were vehemently opposed by employers ' organisations , including the CBI , the British Association of Chambers of Commerce and the Institute of Personnel Management ? |