Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like others before him , he has noted that some aspects of Mayan and other Mesoamerican civilisations bear an uncanny resemblance to artefacts from the great dynasties of China . |
| 2 | He has shown that these solutions are asymptotic to the inhomogeneous Kasner solutions as the singularity is approached . |
| 3 | For example , his work on the death instincts in Beyond the Pleasure Principle is based on the assumption that he needs to show that all organisms , including mankind , aim to return to a tensionless state of inorganic matter . |
| 4 | Zen clearly remembered the occasion when he 'd felt that some detail in his office had altered . |
| 5 | Slowly and carefully , he withdrew the Steyr-Mannlicher .308 hunting rifle that he 'd bought that same afternoon using the cash from the sale of his car and the Firearm Variation certificate that had been issued to Ian Sampson . |
| 6 | Ultimately , he came to realize that this persecution complex existed only in his own mind , and that his unpopularity in Barbados arose from his walking out on them . |
| 7 | He began to notice that those juveniles who were on his line of flight deferred to him , preferring to back off rather than confront him . |
| 8 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 9 | What steps is he taking to ensure that this year local authorities such as Southwark , which a week or two ago had paid less than one fifth of its mandatory grant cheques to eligible students , pay up , so as to minimise student hardship ? |
| 10 | Already , in 1835 , he had concluded that several species of large mammals , formerly flourishing on the eastern plains of South America , had later become extinct while no change in conditions physical or ecological had occurred . |
| 11 | He had to say that any effect produced by a talisman around the neck was to be ascribed to the devil , whereas effects due to Christian amulets came from God 's goodness . |
| 12 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 13 | Indeed in April he had proved that such reading was an art : the Sitwells had organized an evening for the Free French in the Aeolian Hall , and in front of the Queen he gave a memorable and dramatic performance of " What the Thunder Said " . |
| 14 | In the conclusion to The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism , he had suggested that some forms of " debility , ill health and anaemia may produce an efflux of poetry " . |
| 15 | She wondered if he remembered that time he had hummed that same song on the snow-covered terrace in Rocamar — it seemed so long ago now . |
| 16 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 17 | ( In fairness to Rollin he does allow that such rights may be breached , but only for life-or-death reasons . |
| 18 | Nevertheless he continued to insist that all government was of divine institution , and that political authority was conferred by God , so that resistance to the " powers-that-be " was always a sin , regardless of what form that political authority took . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Connie , ’ said Brian , as one who expected as much : he wanted to say that these characters of whom his stepdaughter spoke contributed nothing valuable to society , but was unprepared to defend the ethics and value of advertising in a market economy to a girl who was incapable of grasping the subtleties of an argument . |
| 20 | He 's moved that this matter be deferred . |