Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a second reason for doing this , which was that he hoped thereby to put pressure on France and Germany to hand over to Spain part of French Morocco . |
| 2 | Mathilde 's brother , Prince Napoleon Jerome , better known perhaps under his nickname of ‘ Plon-Plon ’ , was to prove even more of a burden to his cousin , for his activities were political , to such a degree that he seemed frequently to take pleasure in publicly opposing Louis-Napoleon 's policies . |
| 3 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
| 4 | In that , he was like Wallace and like Norman Lockyer , the first editor of Nature ; but he was unlike them in that he went on to become President of the Royal Society , at the time of the First World War . |
| 5 | ‘ It assumes that he went round armed with a little pistol , or that he knew where to lay hands on one in the house . ’ |
| 6 | He 's obliged to do it because it is a departure a very significant departure from his own development plan the plan that he piloted through to tell people exactly what the policies of North Yorkshire County Council were to be . |
| 7 | The count upon which he was acquitted , that he had allegedly bought crack cocaine from a Washington dealer on Sept. 7 , was refuted by defence witnesses who testified that the mayor had not been in the vicinity of the alleged transaction on the day in question . |
| 8 | For the first time in over a month Charles felt certain that he had n't lost interest in sex . |
| 9 | Arthur watched him , pulled in his stomach , listened to the loudspeaker to hear how the performing dog was doing , and thought seriously enough that he had n't seen Fred so exhilarated since last August at Blackpool . |
| 10 | I later learned that he had n't seen Mr Rafter at all , but had hot-footed it back to Mullingar . |
| 11 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |
| 12 | His father , annoyed that he had n't followed family tradition and become a solicitor , had made the hoary old joke about marrying a rich man 's daughter . |
| 13 | Before that he had n't known Helena 's wedding date . |
| 14 | However Tolkien disobligingly remarked that he had n't read Ariosto and would n't have liked him if he had ( Biography , p. 218 ) , while Spenser exemplified much that he hated ( see pp. 42–3 above ) . |
| 15 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 16 | Given Brainerd 's background in the publishing industry , mainly newspapers , and the fact that he had just left Atex it is hardly surprising that the program was designed around the traditional ‘ cut and paste ’ working methods . |
| 17 | He found it strange that he had just buried Tosspot who used to clean the platters and tankards in this very tavern . |
| 18 | The CDU Minister President of Baden-Württemberg , Lothar Späth , resigned in January 1991 because of allegations that he had improperly accepted favours from businessmen [ see p. 37966 ] . |
| 19 | At the end of the first week of February , however , he was surrounded by fresh controversy over allegations that he had improperly avoided conscription during the Vietnam War . |
| 20 | Not that he had even seen Benin , hidden behind the opaque dark windows in the back of the Mercedes . |
| 21 | Blackadder felt that he had somehow betrayed Randolph Henry Ash , though he might more justly have been thought to have betrayed himself ; his grandfather , or possibly Dr Leavis . |
| 22 | Harris then told the court that he had again approached Drew the following day . |
| 23 | He spent November at Roxburgh , where he issued letters patent in which he recognized Edward III as lord superior of Scotland and declared that he had already done homage to Edward , in return for which Edward had agreed to maintain and protect him and his heirs in the kingdom . |
| 24 | Using my normal methods , I hypnotized Clive ; he was such a tense young man that I was grateful that he had already experienced regression . |
| 25 | It is because of this , as well as her own personal charisma and dedication to a cause she really cares about , that Mrs Gellatly 's won stall is a runaway success ( I use the word ‘ runaway ’ deliberately because of the remark by an observant onlooker that he had yet to see Mrs Gellatly walk , and I was immediately , and I think aptly , reminded of the hymn ‘ Take my feet and make them swift and beautiful for Thee ’ ) . |
| 26 | Ramesh K says that he had not met Mr Uppal before , and his brother , Kewal K , says that he briefly met Mr Uppal some years ago . |
| 27 | For his part Dinca , a former First Deputy Prime Minister , claimed that he had not opposed Ceausescu for fear of being dismissed and even executed . |
| 28 | But even if he denied involvement , no one would believe that he had not arranged matters so that Sipotai was killed . |
| 29 | Service of documents Lex Service plc v Johns ; CA ( Glidewell , Balcombe LJJ ) ; 22 Aug 1989 The evidence of the defendant that he had not received documents sent by a recorded delivery service and apparently received by some other person was not contrary evidence for the purpose of contradicting the statutory provision for deemed service under s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 . |
| 30 | It occurred to him as he walked that he had not seen Taheb since their visit to the palace compound . |