Example sentences of "[that] he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 2 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 3 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 6 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 7 | Goff thought that Minton , consciously or unconsciously , divided his friends into two categories , serious and fun — and was aware that he belonged to the first . |
| 8 | Is it not about time that he said to the 44 million voters who are sick and tired of the phoney election campaign that the general election will be on 9 April ? |
| 9 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 10 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |
| 11 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 12 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 13 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 14 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 15 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 16 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 17 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 18 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 19 | Steve has got one that he played at the last S L Os meeting , it lasts about four minutes it 's as long as the song he ai n't heavy he 's my brother . |
| 20 | The Gesta clearly states ( though very briefly ) that he studied at the great law university of Bologna . |
| 21 | This famous author of 3,000 ‘ incomparable ’ ( Byron ) letters , among other largely dilettante activities , showed by a letter written to Sir Horace Mann on 8 June 1791 that he knew of the 1788 Kentish Town Act , which freed the Earl of Camden to build 1,400 houses in Kentish Town . |
| 22 | But it was hard to pick out faces that he knew in the swaying mass of heads . |
| 23 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 24 | And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art . |
| 25 | Now that we know what it means , will the Prime Minister reflect on the ’ double whammy ’ that he received from the other place on the Education ( Schools ) Bill last night ? |
| 26 | In 1155 he became abbot of St Victor : several letters and charters attest his financial vigilance and the practical support that he received from the English pope , Hadrian IV [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | I thought for a second he was going to burn it , but instead he tore it into tiny scraps that he tossed into the warm wind . |
| 28 | All heads turned as his father gave him such a clip that he landed in the muddy , freshly dug grave behind him . |
| 29 | Although Nizan died physically on 23 May 1940 , there can be little doubt that he died for the first time , politically and to a large extent emotionally , that afternoon in late August 1939 when , standing on the harbour at Ajaccio , he read Aragon " s editorial in Ce Soir and was confronted by the bitter reality of Nazi-Soviet collaboration . |
| 30 | The fact that he died in the following April does not seem to have put anyone off or taken away their faith in Pau 's salutariness . |