Example sentences of "that he [vb past] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) .
2 From 1237 until 1245 he seems to have acted as one of the stewards of the king 's household , a post that he combined with the sheriffdom of Gloucestershire ( 1238–46 ) and more briefly with the justiciarship of the southern forests ( 1241–2 ) and the seneschalship of Gascony ( 1243 ) .
3 That he came with the gold ships , Cadmus ,
4 He made clear that he agreed with the thrust of all the other recommendations , except the one which said that responsibility for food should remain within the Department of Agriculture .
5 These details make it clear that Beveridge regarded young workers as constituting a separate source of labour supply which required specialized provision and that he agreed with the ASEA and the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers in wishing to see the transition from school to work treated as an educational matter ( though not necessarily one controlled by the Board of Education ) .
6 ‘ I remember that he slept with the cameras next to his bed , ’ she says .
7 When Jack London described the ‘ move-on ’ confrontations that he experienced with the police in both the Metropolitan capital and in Chicago , he was documenting the normal encounter between the residents of the streets and the patrolling officer .
8 Behind his hostility lay a conviction that the Roman Church represented a corruption of an earlier , undefiled religion that he associated with the Egyptians .
9 And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it .
10 That he fought with the wisdom ,
11 They met him and agreed to pay him an extra £10,300 at £575 per flat to ensure that he continued with the work and completed on time .
12 He did say that he disagreed with the choice of John Hill 's ‘ Karen ’ for first prize in the PORTRAIT section , he reckoned that it was quite ordinary and not up to John Hill 's normally high standard , although he said that John Hill 's first and second prizes in the ARCHITECTURAL/BUILDINGS/RECORD were very well deserved and entirely right .
13 Reds boss Frankie Parkes made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with the man in black .
14 Edward III 's attitude towards questions of tenure and inheritance suggests that he sympathized with the outlook of his peers and was prepared to encourage their aspirations even at the expense of the rights of the crown .
15 Claiming that the allied forces had a " game plan " which was being followed , he said that he sympathized with the motives of those who called for an indefinite air campaign , but that any decision on the launching of a ground offensive would be based on military advice ; there would be no " delay for the sake of delay , hoping that it would save lives " .
16 There is no question that he acted with the dynamism of ‘ a man possessed ’ .
17 And whilst I have gone to Middleton 's grave in the village of Mildenhall , I have found that I could in no way criticise his rejection of my plea that he stayed with the Pathfinders .
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