Example sentences of "[vb pp] he that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that there was any more purpose in his life than there had been yesterday ; but the events of the previous twenty-four hours had shown him that Ra could and would produce the unexpected at the most surprising moment , and he could not suppress the hope that his chance meeting with Merymose might lead somewhere . |
| 2 | The detective had told him that Alexander Atkins and his companion insisted that he meet them on Boxing Night as they would have definite instructions for him . |
| 3 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 4 | She had told him that Brenda was obsessively vegetarian , and that she longed for red meat : would he take her out ? |
| 5 | He had informed the FBI on Jan. 11 , 1990 that his source of information , Salvadorean Col. Armando Aviles , had told him that Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides was planning to murder the Jesuits . |
| 6 | Joseph 's father has told him that things are going to change , meaning , of course , that the new baby will have an impact on all of them . |
| 7 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 8 | Common sense ought to have told him that Marie 's reaction would be just like this : quiet and resigned . |
| 9 | She had met John briefly on Friday night and he told her that someone had told him that men who fought with the International Brigade would not be accepted in the Forces . |
| 10 | The King had told him that Gaveston aimed high , coveted an earldom , and wished to use his friendship with the Prince to found a dynasty as great as the de Clares , the Beaumonts , or any of the great lords who had followed the Conqueror across the Narrow Seas . |
| 11 | Domenica had n't told him that Lorrimer was religious . |
| 12 | Then this morning she had told him that Janine was ‘ delicate ’ and needed her mother to look after her . |
| 13 | She would then , on the vague premise that they might meet , have had her words all sorted and ready , and would have told him that Rosemary , in the flat opposite … |
| 14 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 15 | A former fellow prisoner at Gloucester Jail , Brendan Ekworth , told the court that Gardiner had told him that White would have an accident . |
| 16 | The local police had told him that Mr Steen possessed such a vehicle , and he was just making a routine check on the whereabouts of the car at that time . |
| 17 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 18 | Long acquaintance with the clergy had convinced him that priests could not tell one layman from the next if they happened to be on their own administrative staff . |
| 19 | Perhaps her mother had convinced him that Shiona was incapable of such behaviour , or perhaps he had n't needed any convincing . |
| 20 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 21 | The case of Timothy Evans , however , who had been hanged in 1950 after conviction for murder partly on the evidence of John Christie , also convicted and executed for murder three years later , had convinced him that mistakes could occur . |
| 22 | Mubarak also announced that Saddam had assured him that Iraq had no intention of attacking Kuwait or of moving forces towards the Kuwaiti border . |
| 23 | But there is I mean I 've assured him that things are being done . |
| 24 | He said the colonel had assured him that attacks on embassies would not be repeated and difficulties over foreigners obtaining exit visas had been ended . |
| 25 | Paul Lane had warned him that Phyllis liked to play things her own way , and now it looked as though she did indeed . |
| 26 | After all it had been Bliss who had warned him that Nadirpur was embroiled with the Pessarane Behesht , Bliss who had informed him that the real cargo was arms . |
| 27 | The parish constable , a mournful little man , had informed him that Meg had been murdered . |
| 28 | Mr Macfadyen put it to him that at the meeting with Mackie the next day he had not advised him that Shanks & McEwan intended to issue a profits warning . |