Example sentences of "that [subord] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He badly wants to play , and believes that once he has a League match with Lazio under his belt he will be ready to give his heart to England . |
| 2 | THE screen persona of Lee Van Cleef suggested that if he met a rattler , the snake would come off worse . |
| 3 | And then , one day , out of the blue , Jean-Claude mentioned that if he had a piano he might take pupils . |
| 4 | He made notes and said that if he had a key to the house he 'd be able to plan what was needed in a shorter time . |
| 5 | Had n't he realised that if he married a girl she had to eat ? |
| 6 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 7 | And give warning to Dacre that if he led a force into Scotland hereafter , as reputedly planned , he would suffer at his house of Gilsland . |
| 8 | Another owner discovered that if he put a line of coins on his sideboard his cat would knock them down one by one . |
| 9 | Despite all his careful preliminary research , Bjornsson discovered that if he calculated a formula from one half of his data he obtained a completely different equation from that which was obtained from the other half . |
| 10 | The most open arrangement was to inform a rich suitor that if he wanted a date , he would have to take the whole troupe out . |
| 11 | It amounts to telling the reader that if he has a bet today , he might win , which remains true whether he bets or not , and if he does , whether he wins or not . |
| 12 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 13 | He was stunned to find that if he turned a knob , music came out of the tiny speaker , and he never stopped playing with it . |
| 14 | You talk about getting work you talk about getting work and all that sort of thing erm we 've offered John , at one point , that if he did a bit of clearing up in the churchyard erm that he would be given a small amount of money . |
| 15 | Initially he whispered the line , but it was embarrassing to have to continually repeat himself after a series of ‘ pardons ’ and ‘ whats ? ’ and he soon discovered that if he spoke a line clearly and loudly he was n't noticed as much . |
| 16 | Just another bloody journalist , a dilettante with a ragbag mind , who thought that because he had a smattering of scientific language , which he produced with a glib assurance that made George want to choke him , he was qualified to question him , a serious scientist with an intellectual grasp that Gerrard could never understand , let alone achieve . |
| 17 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 18 | When he was on the field , chairs were placed at regular intervals along each touchline so that when he made a break on the wing , he had plenty of opportunity to rest before continuing his blistering run . |
| 19 | It was fitting , therefore , that when he became a reader in 1968 it was in modern French history . |
| 20 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 21 | He was 128th in driving accuracy , 180th in sand saves , 192nd , which is to say dead last , in sub-par holes ( percentage of eagles and birdies ) , 191st ( or second-to-last ) in scoring average , dead last in both putting on the few greens he hit in regulation and in total putts ( which means that when he missed a green , he seldom got it up and down ) , and dead last again in shooting birdies on par-3s , par-4s and par-5s . |