Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did say that 30 bids were being reviewed , all from foreign firms or Western-backed joint ventures . |
| 2 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 3 | Although Halliday does not commit himself to a functional definition of literary language , he does recognize that different kinds of literary writing may foreground different functions . |
| 4 | ( In fairness to Rollin he does allow that such rights may be breached , but only for life-or-death reasons . |
| 5 | He does know that two weeks ago , his mother has died of starvation . |