Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | had a yard there and an old building , that 's where he had , that 's where he operated from and he used to get all this second hand timber demolition timber from Liverpool and Berkenhead and all that and he reckoned then that for every hundred pound he spent on demolition he had a thousand pound back |
| 2 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 3 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 4 | If a court decides on a two-year probation order , during the first year the person is mandatorily banned under the Bill and there is nothing to stop the court ruling that during the second year he or she should attend a motor course . |
| 5 | In a rare on-the-record interview , he alleged that during the general election he was personally approached by a Cabinet minister with dirt on Paddy Ashdown . |
| 6 | This was not always successful because of the autonomy neighbourhood police have while on the beat , and he told us , with some regret , that as a final resort he was instructed by the sergeant not to take his book of fixed-penalty tickets with him when he was accompanied by the field-worker . |
| 7 | The Commissioners awarded a further penalty of £1,080 , finding that the taxpayer was prevaricating and that as a professional man he had failed to give proper priority to disclosing building society information in full and in good time . |
| 8 | He told us that as a young man he had joined the Fire Service in which his father was a Lieutenant , and the first fire he had attended was this crash . |
| 9 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 10 | Emerging as the main beneficiary of the division within Solidarity , Tyminski had at first been considered a rank outsider and was thus largely ignored by the media and other candidates , but began to attract support with claims that he was untarnished by past politics and that as a self-made millionaire he had the economic acumen to transform the Polish economy . |
| 11 | His friends will hope that as an Honorary Fellow he may long maintain his close association with that great foundation ; that with greater leisure he will increase his production and that his visits to Colnaghi 's will not be rare . |
| 12 | He knew that kidnap and torture were a blatant violation of the Chilean military code and that under the same code he was entitled to register any reservations with a superior officer . |
| 13 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 14 | Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal . |
| 15 | He may , for instance , have a general belief that the woman 's wishes in sexual matters are immaterial , so that in a specific instance he does not bother either to enquire or to think about them . |
| 16 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 17 | At one extreme , the consumer could spend nothing in the present period and save all of his present income so that in the future period he can spend as much as Y t + 1 ; + ( 1 + i ) Y t ; that is , his future income plus his saved present income plus interest . |
| 18 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 19 | Pressed last night on the issue , Mr Havel conceded that in the last resort he would accept the post as head of state . |
| 20 | He concluded with a promise that before the next session he would obtain a less expensive plan probably providing accommodation for the Foreign Colonial and India Offices , and although reception rooms should be included , the residence could be omitted . |
| 21 | In magisterial style , Green dealt peremptorily with the committee 's inflexible attitude , reminding them that on every substantive issue he had fully discussed its possible implications with them . |
| 22 | It was so insultingly different from the embrace he had seen her allow Underwood earlier in the day , that on a mad impulse he made a clumsy grab at her , and pulled her towards him , with a hollow imitation of a roguish laugh . |
| 23 | He even made a number of slips and repetitions that on a different evening he would have been quick to reprimand in others . |
| 24 | Nor would Nevton any better understand that on a deeper level he had tried to force Hope into himself or force himself in Hope and , despite initial success , discovered a fierce resistance . |
| 25 | Addressing the Assembly , Yeltsin said that at the forthcoming Congress he expected an attempt to retreat from reforms . |
| 26 | The incongruity was that at the same time he was convinced of retribution in this world . |
| 27 | Yes oh I ee I , I 'm led to understand that he , he built that church and I 'm led to understand that at the same time he started , he came as a curate to St Matthew 's and then he came to Street into a house and he had a little , he started a little church down there in a private house and then he built the church . |
| 28 | Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks . |