Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’
2 So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in .
3 ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’
4 I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' .
5 His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it .
6 So they tied him with chains but the demonic powers were so great in his life that he snapped them like new cords .
7 This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’
8 It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households .
9 In that she exercised the power of appointment and appointed her husband ( provided that he survived her by 30 days ) to receive the income from her father 's estate .
10 And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science .
11 It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her .
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