Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 2 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 3 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 6 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 7 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |
| 8 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 9 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 10 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 11 | The Gesta clearly states ( though very briefly ) that he studied at the great law university of Bologna . |
| 12 | But it was hard to pick out faces that he knew in the swaying mass of heads . |
| 13 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 14 | Now that we know what it means , will the Prime Minister reflect on the ’ double whammy ’ that he received from the other place on the Education ( Schools ) Bill last night ? |
| 15 | In 1155 he became abbot of St Victor : several letters and charters attest his financial vigilance and the practical support that he received from the English pope , Hadrian IV [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | I thought for a second he was going to burn it , but instead he tore it into tiny scraps that he tossed into the warm wind . |
| 17 | All heads turned as his father gave him such a clip that he landed in the muddy , freshly dug grave behind him . |
| 18 | The fact that he died in the following April does not seem to have put anyone off or taken away their faith in Pau 's salutariness . |
| 19 | He reports that he died in the early days of the reign of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) , in the year 907/1501–2 according to one report , and concludes : " Because , according to the account in the he was an adornment of the chain of Seyhulislams , he has been recorded in this place . " |
| 20 | The little parade that he witnessed through the steamed window of the Administration block was a wound to him . |
| 21 | It 's here that he worked on the painstaking part by part design of the bike on a computer . |
| 22 | Philip Leapor told Freemantle that he worked for the Blencowe family for five years following his daughter 's birth . |
| 23 | I went to Anastasiya Pavlovna 's , introduced myself , and she said , ‘ I 've got some works by Chagall , some studies that he did for the Jewish Theatre and several other works as well ’ . |
| 24 | Further , the appellant complains that by ruling in the way that he did on the main issue , the assistant recorder effectively left before the jury evidence prejudicial to the appellant which was relevant to counts 1 and 6 only : had he ruled in favour of the appellant on the motion to quash then he would have had to consider the matter and ( by inference ) would have exercised his discretion to discharge the jury and order a new trial on the remaining counts . |
| 25 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 26 | Is he able to elaborate on the answer that he gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ? |
| 27 | The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial . |
| 28 | Millet took the bus to the pre-war inelegance of the College close to the Thames towpath and blessed the warmth that he found on the upper deck . |
| 29 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 30 | The subsequent release of 1,300 pages of witness interviews and depositions collected by the police during their investigation contained many inconsistencies , but appeared to contradict Senator Kennedy 's assertion that he learned of the alleged assault only after returning to Washington DC on April 1 . |