Example sentences of "that he [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 2 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 3 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 4 | The trustee may at any time give notice to a secured creditor that he proposes at the end of twenty-eight days to redeem the security at the value placed upon it by the creditor in his proof . |
| 5 | We know that he kept away from the moor , so it 's unlikely that he waited at the moor gate every evening . |
| 6 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 7 | Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table . |
| 8 | Actor , Anthony Hopkins , explains that he jumped at the chance to play a part in the film . |
| 9 | Erm one thing before we move on do you think there is a distinction or a difference between the outline agrarian land reform which is essentially 's creation , and the speech that he gives at the end of the conference ? |
| 10 | He finds that he looks at the beggar intensely , as if he would like to know his life story , and smiles quite naturally . |
| 11 | How does the Prime Minister reconcile the welcome emphasis that he placed at the Commonwealth conference on the extension of democratic government throughout the Commonwealth with the continuing reluctance of the Government to give any form of democratic control over their own lives to the people of Wales and Scotland ? |
| 12 | Sharpe had no watch , but he estimated that he stayed at the edge of the wood for two hours during which time he counted twenty-two guns and forty-eight supply wagons . |
| 13 | Having been gently reminded by Lady Rutherford , ‘ We are all philanthropists here ; we do not need to put our hands up if we wish to speak ’ , William Morris completely forgot his shyness and at one stage became so carried away that he stood at the front of the room shaking hands with himself . |
| 14 | Suppose that he starts at the pole in Fig. 3.8 with the local vector a shown there . |