Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected to demonstrate that social support was related to depression independently of stress ( Figure 4.3A ) . |
| 2 | He has announced that private enterprise will be allowed to flourish . |
| 3 | He 'd heard that stainless steel was going inside that box at such a rate as to absorb the country 's entire annual output , and that the rip-offs were a scandal . |
| 4 | At first , he 'd worried that Amber Epipheny would be jealous of him , and wondered whether she 'd confront him about the matter . |
| 5 | She sat there looking much less pale and thanking God privately that He 'd stopped that horrid war in Finland and brought Charles back to her . |
| 6 | Zen clearly remembered the occasion when he 'd felt that some detail in his office had altered . |
| 7 | To think he 'd stolen that secret image of me , taken , no doubt , from an upstairs window with a fancy lens . |
| 8 | Slowly and carefully , he withdrew the Steyr-Mannlicher .308 hunting rifle that he 'd bought that same afternoon using the cash from the sale of his car and the Firearm Variation certificate that had been issued to Ian Sampson . |
| 9 | Ultimately , he came to realize that this persecution complex existed only in his own mind , and that his unpopularity in Barbados arose from his walking out on them . |
| 10 | On the contrary , he seemed to think that popular art and literature were themselves full of devices which experimentalists were trying to recapture , as if ‘ intellectual montage ’ or ‘ dream time ’ were implicit in folk fables , riddles and jokes . |
| 11 | And he refuses to recognise that high interest rates are the price we pay for that deficit . ’ |
| 12 | What steps is he taking to ensure that this year local authorities such as Southwark , which a week or two ago had paid less than one fifth of its mandatory grant cheques to eligible students , pay up , so as to minimise student hardship ? |
| 13 | So he had worn that hard hat , since even before he left the home . |
| 14 | This was because by then he had written The Origin where he had argued that primitive society was classless , on the evidence he had obtained from Morgan . |
| 15 | He had to say that any effect produced by a talisman around the neck was to be ascribed to the devil , whereas effects due to Christian amulets came from God 's goodness . |
| 16 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 17 | He had said that French law moved slowly ; she was about to make this into a record case . |
| 18 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 19 | Indeed in April he had proved that such reading was an art : the Sitwells had organized an evening for the Free French in the Aeolian Hall , and in front of the Queen he gave a memorable and dramatic performance of " What the Thunder Said " . |
| 20 | She wondered if he remembered that time he had hummed that same song on the snow-covered terrace in Rocamar — it seemed so long ago now . |
| 21 | Somehow he had captured that foreign poise , for when he did fire his weapon … |
| 22 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 23 | Nevertheless he continued to insist that all government was of divine institution , and that political authority was conferred by God , so that resistance to the " powers-that-be " was always a sin , regardless of what form that political authority took . |
| 24 | He 's moved that this matter be deferred . |