Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , she had been forced to agree with Geoffrey , her vicar , when , after a local deanery chapter meeting , he 'd said that a stranger might be forgiven for supposing that the Church of England in south London was staffed by middle-aged ex-lorry drivers , recruited via the Southwark Ordination Course , plus a sprinkling of very young men who had found their accountancy examinations too arduous . |
| 2 | It was the first time he 'd realised that a woman 's blood had the power to excite him . |
| 3 | He seemed to think that a policeman 's lot should be to deal in drama . |
| 4 | He began to see that a person should be judged not only on what he has done but also on what he wanted to do . |
| 5 | If he had hoped that a row might spur him on to a direct , hands on approach to murdering Elinor , Henry was disappointed . |
| 6 | He had calculated that a call to arms at such a short notice would bring out the fighting qualities in his ailing general — and it worked . |
| 7 | He had believed that a country girl like her would find him wonderful , a college man with great ambitions . |
| 8 | In the end , coming home from Benediction , he had blurted it out , rather boastfully , since he had felt that a brush with a real pick-pocket had a certain adventurous quality about it . |
| 9 | In Book I , Chapter 3 , Section 3 of his A System of Logic ( written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation ) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality , a distinction which , he feels , may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution , for example , by reference to the quality , as when we call a sensation ‘ the sensation of white ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ What 'll we do ? ’ asked Tim after a short silence ; even he had to admit that a lady would not go away leaving behind all her credit cards and a wad of paper money . |
| 11 | He had known that a policeman would be in attendance . |
| 12 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 13 | Scaevola is less than enthusiastic , but he does state that a case can be made for a trust 's having been established . |