Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 2 | It was in the course of a leisurely journey on the trans-Siberian Railway that he persuaded Wheeler-Bennett to devote himself to becoming a specialist on contemporary Germany . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 4 | Every time that he wrote postcards to his mother and to his grandparents memories of his father revived . |
| 5 | He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too . |
| 6 | She had known that he wrote poetry , but she had never read or heard any of it before . |
| 7 | He said that he wrote stories , though he had to admit that he had never got further than the first two pages . |
| 8 | And he could have sworn that he heard Ratagan 's roar above the din of the battle . |
| 9 | But he thought then that there was someone behind him , he thought for a moment that he heard footsteps . |
| 10 | Walesa , addressing his former workmates at the Gdansk shipyard on June 3 , stated that he advocated rule by decree during a transitional period but that parliament opposed this . |
| 11 | Johnny was an old-fashioned inside-forward ( the position in which he had won a League championship medal with Chelsea in 1955 ) , but he gradually moved , via wing-half , to full-back and it was from there that he skippered Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , taking us out of Division 4 in 1960–61 . |
| 12 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 13 | The College 's first Principal ( or Professor , as he and his more immediate successors were called ) published his first proposals for a veterinary school in England in 1788 , but it was not until two years later that he made contact with the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 14 | He was so rip-roaring drunk , in fact , that he made newspaper headlines the next day . |
| 15 | West Ham 's first-team coach angrily refutes the charge that he made V-signs at the lout during the 5-1 victory . |
| 16 | OCT 3 : Allegations that he made V-sign to Chelsea fans at Highbury after scoring Arsenal 's late winner — again not proven . |
| 17 | SEPT 5 : Allegations — unproven — that he made gestures to the Wimbledon crowd after scoring his second goal in Arsenal 's 3-2 defeat . |
| 18 | The magistrates told him that he was ignorant , knowing no Greek , and that he made people neglect their calling . |
| 19 | He timed the swinging of chandeliers in the cathedral and at once abstracted the essence of the problem , so that he made pendulums of string and small weights and established the relationship between length and time of swing , using his own pulse for measurement , for there existed no device for fine accurate timing . |
| 20 | Hocazade confounded Molla Zeyrek , a feat which so impressed Mehmed II that he made Hocazade his Hoca . |
| 21 | What the little boys remembered about his class was that he made divinity fun , even though it was before breakfast . |
| 22 | Adam of Bremen reports that Cnut had intended Swegen to rule Norway , Harthacnut Denmark , and Harold England , and the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham that he made Harold the English king , but the Encomium says that he not only promised Emma that any son of hers should be heir , but later on oath pledged the whole kingdom subject to him to Harthacnut , who received oaths of loyalty from English nobles . |
| 23 | The jury … found that Constable Laurie was not actuated by malice or direct motive , but had actually been over-zealous ; that he had no reasonable and probable ground for believing that Roche 's house was used for betting , and that he did not honestly believe that he made bets with plaintiff . |
| 24 | He admitted that he thought electors were sick of what seemed like endless campaigning , but for the last two weeks his home has been the headquarters for a hectic campaign office . |
| 25 | When asked if he thought a ‘ level playing field ’ would ever be achieved Heseltine said that he thought change would take place , but not just because politicians wish it . |
| 26 | For her stepmother to tell her meant that she and her father must sometimes talk about her , and that her father had undoubtedly on at least one occasion said that he thought Artemis had some ability . |
| 27 | Joe was interested in John 's tales of his time in Spain , but when he spoke angrily about the condition of the poor in Liverpool , Joe said mildly that he thought things were improving . |
| 28 | The minister 's conversations with his Iranian opposite number , Ali Akhbar Velayati , led the Iranian to say that he thought Iraq was indeed ready to withdraw from Kuwait but might have conditions . |
| 29 | It was not his way to speak sharply — that was his wife 's department — but he could not conceal the fact that he thought Anna was both wrong and behaving badly . |
| 30 | Former England captain Chris Cowdrey was more critical , saying : ‘ Keith Fletcher said before the tour that he thought India posed very few problems . |