Example sentences of "[adv] that he [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unlikely that he would have been refused , now that he had acquired such patrons and had shown the service that he might offer his adopted country . |
| 2 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 3 | Not that the gay Oz had been his idea , or even that he had provided much input , apart from advice on the telephone . |
| 4 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 5 | But Mr Foley said afterwards that he had had several discussions over the last few weeks with Mr Clinton and he had not been asked if he wanted such an appointment . |