Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 32 | Thomas 's house , which he could barely keep up , was run mostly on the income from a small chain of modern toy shops that he had built up for his wife over the years . |
| 33 | McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed . |
| 34 | She wanted to avoid Oliver , although she was desperate to know that he had moved out of the flat . |
| 35 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 36 | And then he got so bad , that he had to go in for . |
| 37 | Hanging over him all the time , however , was the knowledge that he had to go back into hospital for further surgery on his spine . |
| 38 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 39 | According to the recently discovered personal notes , however , Weinberger was aware of a November 1985 arms shipment of US Hawk anti-aircraft missiles from Israel to Iran before the end of the year , despite earlier claims that he had found out about it only in 1986 . |
| 40 | Last season it became so inflamed that he had to pull out of the Carolls Irish Open at Portmarnock . |
| 41 | Stirling said that he had to fly up to Beirut where he met a very senior French general , who promptly said ‘ Non ’ . |
| 42 | He reported that he had come in by helicopter , and had claimed the hill as Balboa 's on the advice of William , and in a formal note to the Explorers ' Club of New York , of which he was a member . |
| 43 | The victim had been told , while in trance , that the word would remind him that he had come out without his trousers ! |
| 44 | The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem . |
| 45 | So far removed was it , both in time and in temper , from the realities of a large city parish and the growing bewilderment and tribulation that the first two decades of the new century had visited upon its inhabitants that his birthplace and its memories became as insubstantial as the tales of Cuchullain and the Red Branch Knights that he had read about in school . |
| 46 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 47 | It was the first time in his life that he had slept out of doors ; as a boy , he and Jean-Paul had often pleaded to do this , and it had always been forbidden . |
| 48 | And at the same time ashamed of the affliction that he had brought down on himself . |
| 49 | It took no more than a year before exhibitions of the works that he had brought out of Russia ( these being just part of what he had owned before leaving his best works to the Russian people ) began their triumphant tour of the prestigious galleries of Europe , America and Canada . |
| 50 | One of England 's best respected county cricket captains , Neale ( right ) won top marks from his fellows — despite some ‘ problem areas ’ that he had to get out of his system |
| 51 | The other side of the roaring boy , the young Hal and poetry-loving bruiser , the devil in bed and pub , was a young man who felt alone in London , knowing that he had to look out for himself and look out sharply . |
| 52 | Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) . |
| 53 | On this particular Monday morning , Adrian had the feeling that he had woken up in a colour supplement . |
| 54 | When he launched a well-timed attack on the greed of the boss class and their salary increases he was again made to feel that he had spoken out of turn . |
| 55 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 56 | Speaking after the withdrawal of the final charges Buckey , who had spent five years in prison before being released on bail in 1987 , said that he planned to move out of the state and " get some fresh air " . |
| 57 | As a boy , Zeng had taken to developing old negatives that he found lying around in his house , and an interest in actually taking photographs naturally followed . |
| 58 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 59 | ‘ Harry had a chip shop in Bradford and it was because of his wife 's health that he decided to move out to the Dales in 1928 , ’ said Richard Richardson , Harry Ramsden 's marketing director . |
| 60 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced on Dec. 17 , despite a constitutional ban , that he intended to dispatch up to 1,500 German troops . |