Example sentences of "[adv] that he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 2 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 3 | It will also help him set the stock level for each item , so that he has sufficient stock , but not too much . |
| 4 | Only that he had more money than he could count , but she knew that already . |
| 5 | It 's just that he went one way and I went another . |
| 6 | It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company . |
| 7 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 8 | The Secretary for Constitutional Affairs , Michael Sze , said yesterday that he hoped Sino-British talks could start soon to end a long-running row over Hong Kong 's future which has shaken the colony . |
| 9 | A Prague newspaper said yesterday that he weighed 36 stone . |
| 10 | It was an hour later that he heard light footsteps and watched the handle turn . |
| 11 | Franco , however , had already shown clearly that he wanted total victory and now indicated that he would contemplate nothing short of unconditional surrender . |
| 12 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 13 | Now that he has these powers , what will he do with them ? |
| 14 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 15 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 16 | It was here that he spotted two men stealing a truck loaded with aluminium scrap . |
| 17 | The EC 's delegate to the talks , Pablo Benavides , said afterwards that he thought further talks would be unproductive and that the two parties should refer their dispute to the International Court of Justice . |