Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Namely , that he sported sub-collar locks to make a ponytail look like a distinct possibility come the season 's finale in Monaco . |
| 2 | He was well aware that he made young men look badly dressed and ill-mannered . |
| 3 | The clash between Balcon 's nationalism and the Ostrers ' requirement that he pursue international popularity led to the signs of strain that are evident in much of the Gaumont-British output , and it is easy to understand why Balcon became so disillusioned with the idea of international production . |
| 4 | If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be . |
| 5 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 6 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 7 | Dan 's notes record that he saw eleven B–17s go down . |
| 8 | It was couched in the form of a joke , or at least of banter , but it had the directness that he knew many women responded to . |
| 9 | The deal was all too similar to others that he knew unscrupulous businessmen had perpetrated in this country and others . |
| 10 | Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’ |
| 11 | The alleged motive which John did not dispute was that he committed this crime to conceal another crime being the murder of MOIR McILCHENICH widow in Ellister and we are told that the last mentioned murder of the widow was " discovered " ( probably means committed ) by him and others . |
| 12 | She said that he committed both offences to feed his addiction to gaming machines . |
| 13 | It was here that he spotted two men stealing a truck loaded with aluminium scrap . |
| 14 | Even as a child , Russell describes himself as having found this intellectual , religious background as intolerable , and he says that he spent endless hours meditating on the supposed rational grounds for Christianity . |
| 15 | In fairness to de Valera , it must be said that he opposed any attempt to incorporate the church into the apparatus of the state and in this was , as already noted , going against the form of relationship preferred by the Popes of the day . |
| 16 | After a meeting with umpires Steve Randell and Terry Prue , Subba Row said in a statement that he expected all players to adhere to proper standards of behaviour . |
| 17 | Bolger took office on Oct. 28 and announced his new 18-member Cabinet on Nov. 1 , using the occasion to stress that he expected all Ministers to observe the tradition of collective responsibility . |
| 18 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
| 19 | His quarrel with the British was not about whether dominion status was an adequate offer , but over whether they were sincere in making it , and it was only when he concluded , in 1919 , that they were not , that he launched mass non-co-operation to get it . |
| 20 | It is particularly interesting that he notes that science has come to hold , for some , the status of a religion : students of the arts , for example , might regard science as ‘ mystical ’ . |
| 21 | Check that he takes any medicines prescribed for him correctly . |
| 22 | He told the Guardian that he believed senior management took deliberate steps to hush up the dangers . |
| 23 | This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry — and indeed he had . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The mocking-birds were probably his best clue , since here he found that he had clear evidence showing that the populations of different islands were quite distinct . |
| 28 | LINTON WAS VERY surprised to be woken so early , and told that he had another journey to make , before breakfast . |
| 29 | ‘ did , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority ’ Means that this offence is not committed if the accused believed that he had lawful authority to do it or that he would have had the owner 's consent if the owner knew of his doing it and the circumstances of it . |
| 30 | As a result , he was later dogged by the claim that he had continuing CIA links , a claim he always denied . |