Example sentences of "that he had [verb] at the " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave .
2	He confessed to Beaton all that he had done at the behest of the English king , including ‘ the suppression of sundry abbeys and friaries ’ .
3	After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office .
4	In Aden Nizan rediscovered his emotional strength , rediscovered , in short , the personality that he had relinquished at the age of twelve , at the moment of his father 's personal crisis .
5	While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him .
6	For example , his belief that the leader 's job was to set a policy and leave his subordinates to implement it — the belief that he had expressed at the War College in the 1920s ( see page 4 ) — got him into deep water in Algeria .
7	Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind .
8	After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted .
9	But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle .
10	As Jaq lay in his sleep-cell at quarter-light with the trunk sealed in the nearby oubliette , he recalled all that he had learned at the conclave .

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