Example sentences of "fact [that] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father persuaded the minister to conduct the funeral service without reference to the fact that he took his own life . |
| 2 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |
| 3 | She closed her eyes and was uncertain what soothed the effects of his brutishness most — the fact that he thought her good enough to tackle the Palmer & Pearson work , the fact that he thought her brainy , or the fact that he thought her beautiful . |
| 4 | She closed her eyes and was uncertain what soothed the effects of his brutishness most — the fact that he thought her good enough to tackle the Palmer & Pearson work , the fact that he thought her brainy , or the fact that he thought her beautiful . |
| 5 | She closed her eyes and was uncertain what soothed the effects of his brutishness most — the fact that he thought her good enough to tackle the Palmer & Pearson work , the fact that he thought her brainy , or the fact that he thought her beautiful . |
| 6 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 7 | He was a powerful , very fit-looking man , and he was obviously enjoying the mental distress he had caused and the fact that he held her powerless in his hands . |
| 8 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |