Example sentences of "[noun pl] that he [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as commander of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards that he won the DSO at the Battle of Tumbledown during the Falklands campaign . |
| 2 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 3 | William Waldegrave , the health secretary , rejected nurses ' demands that he delay the government 's NHS reforms because patients ( they said ) are suffering . |
| 4 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 5 | When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’ |
| 6 | So it 's in fact in those eighteen lines that he describes the fox and brings it to life in the poem . |
| 7 | Sigarup was chosen as one of the village representatives and was paid twenty rupees for each of the five days that he attended the course . |
| 8 | Lord Aldington said his earlier statements that he left the area between 25 and 29 May were made before he had properly researched the matter and before he realised his departure date was crucial . |
| 9 | He spent weeks editing and was personally convinced it was a work of art ; he made gross statements that he had the movie that would end all movies . |
| 10 | Harold Wilson appointed so many commissions that he brought the system into discredit . |
| 11 | We know from his other writings that he defended the use of images in understanding the faith . |
| 12 | I should have thought that it was a good idea so that he could see , from time to time , individual complaints about the businesses that he has the responsibility for regulating . |
| 13 | Upon his return to Bangladesh Khan sided with the " neutralists " and made it clear to his officers that he wanted the military to remain impartial in the ongoing political conflict . |
| 14 | It was clear from Mr Lamont 's comments that he hopes the restructuring of the system will improve the investment climate for larger projects which create the bulk of the jobs in platform yards and oil-related engineering work . |
| 15 | Although Chang Tsai 's comparison with water shows clearly that the ch'i is a continuum and not an aggregate of atoms , the analogy with matter is so deep in Le Gall 's preconceptions that he assumes the component atoms to be implicit in the word ch'i of the Chinese text . |
| 16 | Even in 1831 , at a moment of mass mobilisation , George Thompson on tour encountered conflict between dissenters in Dartford and then in Faversham confronted such distance between church and chapel abolitionists that he doubted the possibility of a lecture which could draw in cross-denominational support . |
| 17 | On one famous occasion an aspiring pro , later to play in the Ryder Cup , was so incensed by the antics of his pro-am partners that he left the course in mid-round . |
| 18 | Along with Siemens Italia SpA president Giorgio Scanavacca , Italian legal authorities arrested Davide Giacalone , former advisor to Oscar Mammi , former minister of post and telecom , on bribery charges : Giacalone is charged with having accepted $5.3m from Giuseppe Parrella , former managing director of ASST , Azienda Telefonica dello Stato SpA , in the minister 's study ; Giacalone has already told the police that he passed the money on to representatives of the Republican party ; for his part , the former PTT minister declared his innocence : ‘ That I was involved in a history of billion-lire bribes is as unfounded as it is untrue — at whatever moment the magistrates tell me it is necessary to investigate my accounts , I will liberate myself immediately from parliamentary immunity , ’ he said . |
| 19 | In the Sun 's report , the accused was alleged to have told the police that he stripped the victim naked and cut off one of her breasts to make it look like ‘ the work of a madman ’ . |
| 20 | So , if the owner of goods merely allows another person to have possession of them , ( e.g. at a left luggage office ) that act will not raise an estoppel for it does not convey to others that he considers the person in possession to have the right to dispose of them . |
| 21 | Smart 's claims that he had the support in this enterprise of ‘ many of the Bishops and other dignified Clergymen ’ seems to have been completely unrealistic . |
| 22 | Havel dismissed Ivan Gasparovic as Federal Prosecutor on March 2 on the grounds that he lacked the authority to carry out his job . |
| 23 | Eichelberger told Japanese representatives that he feared the outbreak of war with the Soviet Union and this could include a sudden attack based on southern Sakhalin and the Kuril islands after allied forces had left Japan with the conclusion of a peace treaty . |