Example sentences of "[vb past] he that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 2 | They told him that his only remedy was to work as a government agent . |
| 3 | When congratulating Paskevich on the end of the war with the Turks in 1829 , Nicholas told him that his next task was to be " the permanent pacification of the mountain peoples or the extermination of the recalcitrant " . |
| 4 | It astonished him that her outward appearance had changed so little . |
| 5 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
| 6 | Jacob was no longer a trickster in the Joseph story , but himself the victim of the duplicity of his sons who convinced him that his favourite Joseph was dead . |