Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trevor Fishlock watched him show that nice guys can be good politicians — even Prime Ministers |
| 2 | There are also some splendid quotes ; Planck 's gloomy view of the advance of science led him to believe that scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents , but rather because they eventually die . |
| 3 | At the time when the Prime Minister said that if his policies ’ were not hurting , they were not working , ’ did he realise that those policies would cause the longest recession since the 1930s ? |
| 4 | Why did he conclude that fifty millesimals were better ? |
| 5 | To exonerate him the court invented the second stage : did he believe that reasonable people would regard his behaviour as not dishonest ? |
| 6 | Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies . |
| 7 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 8 | Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ? |
| 9 | But at no stage did he deny that these conditions are part of the explanation . |
| 10 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 11 | Regarding developments on the Pentium chip front , Dr Grove said he expected that Pentium-based machines would become as ubiquitous as the 80486 machines , and that the chip would be offered not only in servers but in desktop machines . |
| 12 | Rudolf Seiters , the head of the Bonn Chancellery , announcing the move last night , said he expected that 11,000 East Germans currently in Prague would join the special trains heading west . |
| 13 | The coroner said he understood that one man had been arrested following inquiries and another man was still being sought . |
| 14 | Ballater said he hoped that one day it would . |