Example sentences of "he [verb] that some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if it was n't too personal , did she really want him to know that some wee devil of tenderness pulled at her heart at the grey lines of weariness etched into his face ? |
| 2 | He says that some contained mustard gas , which choked and burnt . |
| 3 | Responding to the Amnesty report in a BBC interview on April 19 , the then Minister for Planning , Salman Abdul Razek as Mutawa , denied that human rights violations were continuing unchecked , although he acknowledged that some human rights violations may have occurred immediately after the liberation of the country . |
| 4 | Kosa sees this charismatic character as peculiar to medicine and clergy , although he notes that some Protestant denominations have weakened or eliminated the charismatic authority of the clergyman . |
| 5 | He explains that some cutting oil has been noticed in a culverted drain under the shop floor . |
| 6 | At eighteen , he decides that some freakish wind must have mistakenly transplanted him to France : he was born , he declares , to be Emperor of Cochin-China , to smoke 36-fathom pipes , to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 catamites ; but instead , displaced by this meteorological hazard , he is left with immense , insatiable desires , fierce boredom , and an attack of the yawns . |
| 7 | A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 8 | In a covering letter he said that some further amendments would be needed : |
| 9 | Once that poor girl 's divorce was through , he hoped that some decent kind young man would appear to make her happy , and take some of her present burdens from her . |
| 10 | Besides the discouraging glow of the porch light he supposed that some invisible demarcation held vandals back to the pavement ; that was their territory , this was his . |
| 11 | He argues that some Conservative leaders were predisposed to fight local elections on party lines from the moment that the modern system of local government was introduced . |