Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he saw he sh great pace was shown then it was a nothingy ball that he made into a good situation . |
| 2 | It was unfortunate that he returned for a short time but this was necessary in order for him to complete training prior to deploying on an operational tour . ’ |
| 3 | However , it was only in September 1937 , at the Party Rally , that he returned to a frontal attack on Jewry , framed in general terms , in connection with his main attack on Bolshevism , which he explicitly dubbed a Jewish creation . |
| 4 | The police initially reported that he had a knowledge of surgery and , due to a message scrawled on a wall over one of the victims , it was suggested that he belonged to a secret organization , the Freemasons . |
| 5 | ‘ I could see that he had not had a drink yet and I was doubly surprised that he seemed in a good mood . ’ |
| 6 | He says that he seemed like a nice chap . |
| 7 | I never took a meal with him , but I should be surprised to find that he ate with a good appetite . |
| 8 | In order to facilitate a quick arrest under difficult circumstances — ‘ the crowd was jeering and becoming unpleasantly restive ’ — Robert Mark then confesses that he indulged in a little police brutality , by using his strictly non-regulation rubber truncheon to give the offender ‘ a hefty whack on the shin' which apparently broke his leg . |
| 9 | Agassi wore a strapping on his right elbow that he injured during a 45-minute training session on Monday . |
| 10 | ‘ Crack ? ’ she queried , interested , despite the fact that he sounded like a damned travel guide . |
| 11 | To that representative of the religious élite who by his bland statement , ‘ How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God ! , ’ revealed that he counted on a reserved seat , our Lord told the parable of the Great Feast . |
| 12 | The court admitted that it was giving an unusual meaning to the word , for a historian who described the end of Rizzio by saying that he met with a fatal accident in Holyrood Palace would fairly be charged with a misleading statement of fact . |
| 13 | They did n't use a full-time science man , only that wet psychiatrist with a profile that he displayed to a damned sight better advantage than his puny little mind . |
| 14 | There can be no doubt that he planned on a great scale . |
| 15 | The woman also noted that he spoke with a distinctive accent , possibly Irish . |
| 16 | In fact so engrossed with her movements was he that he bumped into a young woman who was struggling with an impossibly heavy suitcase . |
| 17 | Eventually he owned most of the country between Bath and Malmesbury , an estate that he covered with a complete range of model estate buildings , from tiny farm workers ' cottages to his great house at Grittleton . |
| 18 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 19 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 20 | He showed an exceptional and sustaining dedication to his art in the face of personal loneliness and critical indifference ; it was only after his death that he emerged as a vital influence on writers of the generation of Evelyn Waugh , W. H. Auden [ qq.v. ] , and Anthony Powell . |
| 21 | In 1853 he travelled to Mecca , which was such a dangerous trip for a European that he travelled as a Muslim pilgrim . |