Example sentences of "that he [vb past] in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But it was hard to pick out faces that he knew in the swaying mass of heads . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All heads turned as his father gave him such a clip that he landed in the muddy , freshly dug grave behind him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | Although conceivably not before 994 , this was probably earlier , for the greatest possible length of time that could have elapsed between 994 and Æthelric 's death is five years — assuming that he died in the last year that the will could have been confirmed — and whether even this justifies the description " many years " seems questionable . |
| 9 | You can buy slack-key that he did in the '40s and the '50s and the '60s , it 's all there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The major tasks that he tackled in the New Deal were , first , to provide the relief for the victims of the Depression ; second , to promote the recovery of the American economy on a permanent basis ; and third , to remove through reform the inequalities of American society . |
| 12 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 13 | Lord John Rossendale grinned at Bristow , then , as if he were a magician , produced a letter that he flourished in the elderly servant 's face . |
| 14 | There is probably more gloom about the British economy than about several of the economies that he mentioned in the gloomy passage at the beginning of his speech . |