Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’ |
| 2 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 3 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 4 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 5 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |