Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only in 1946 that he came up with a practical scheme for using the manyattas for higher purposes . |
| 2 | It was essential that the candidate 's appearances were carefully staged so that he came across in a favourable light before the television cameras . |
| 3 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 4 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 5 | He is also , like many archaeologists , a connoisseur of real ale , so it is not surprising that he singles out as a favourite this inscription from Upton-on-Severn : |
| 6 | He says all they know is that he fell out of a window at a party . |
| 7 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
| 8 | But that night , when he is asleep , the creature enters his chamber and rips back his curtain — so ! — so that he wakes up with a start to find its dreadful gaze upon him , and its hand out-stretched for his throat ! |
| 9 | For the purposes of sensationalism and drama it would be pleasant to report that he burst in with a look of alarm and a shout of excitement , or some fancy combination of both . |
| 10 | Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’ |
| 11 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 12 | Labour Ministers were eager to press ahead with plans for the peace , and Dalton told the Commons that he looked forward to a full employment target which would be considerably below Beveridge 's 8 ½%; dge ly . |
| 13 | I am safe here , he thought : and the thought was so rare , so violent in its unexpectedness , that he looked around like a villain in a melodrama to see if anyone had overheard this God-tempting thought . |
| 14 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 15 | Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk . |
| 16 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 17 | A few days after his mother died , a friend recalls that he gazed lovingly at a photograph of his mother , while pondering whether life continues after death . |
| 18 | He is indeed ‘ the most political of all our poets ’ and this is hardly surprising when we remember that he grew up in an age of Revolution . |
| 19 | He was a man of simple tastes who had a down-to-earth view of life that he passed on in an almost unconscious way with an innate goodness that is found among the local pillars of the community who never stray far from their birthplace . |
| 20 | Mr Ballantyne said that he ran out of a drug used to control Mr Stockton 's epileptic fits . |
| 21 | You will see that he returns home with a good report of our little homeland . |
| 22 | So what I 'd like to do is erm , balance out the influence in him , prior to going out and making these negotiations erm , so that he comes back with a a suitable timescale for us to deal with it , and has n't promised them the earth in the way of commission or er , print changes or whatever . |
| 23 | He was knocked around so much by his father that he ended up with a crooked leg , but he must have had some courage , because he was the only one of his clutch to survive . |
| 24 | The small foreign person was walking as jauntily as ever , though Bramble realized that he did so with a pronounced limp . |
| 25 | ‘ Held with the intention ’ has come to mean brought into being with the intention , on the part of anyone , and subsequently held , by him or by anyone else' ; and if that is what the draftsman intended or was instructed to express , the conclusion is irresistible that he did so with a degree of competence that would not have disgraced a chimpanzee learning the piano . |
| 26 | One of the features of Ben Jonson 's Workes 1616 was not only that Jonson was the first English dramatist to present his plays as worthy of serious literary attention but also that he did so in a folio format . |
| 27 | Michael had a sense that he pushed along behind a much cleverer creature and could not keep up . |
| 28 | If so , it is clear that he gave up after a short while , returned to E ( which needed a fresh set of running titles before printing could resume ) and finished it off regardless . |
| 29 | When servicing your " fridge " choose a service engineer whom you can trust and insist that he collects any gas that he bleed off in a proper cylinder . |
| 30 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |