Example sentences of "[to-vb] he that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a patient has convinced himself that he has still got NSU , it is very difficult to persuade him that all the symptoms he complains of are in fact perfectly normal . |
| 2 | I am glad to reassure him that all is on course and going smoothly . |
| 3 | I would like to reassure him that this is not unusual behaviour for this fish . |
| 4 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 5 | An accurate scholar and an inspired teacher , he did not become a Professor in Bristol — yet his friends and pupils combined to give him that rarest of honours , a Festschrift , a book containing some of their best work , published to mark his 70th birthday . |
| 6 | The Director General , before considering a complaint , may require the complainant to satisfy him that alternative methods of dealing with the matter have been tried and found inadequate . |
| 7 | It had been difficult to convince him that such a step would be the worst one he could take . |
| 8 | Bessey was sceptical of the whole approach as little more than revived natural history , and , in order to convince him that scientific ecology was possible , Clements and Pound looked for a method of quantifying their studies . |
| 9 | ‘ At the moment , it seems impossible to convince him that any kind of action at all is necessary . ’ |
| 10 | She was kneading bread , her arms flour to the wrists , when the doorway behind her was darkened , and she knew even before she whirled to face him that this was not her father coming home from his snares . |
| 11 | The Emperor himself ordered its destruction , but even advisers inured to sycophancy were forced to advise him that this was an impossibility . |
| 12 | Sometimes the terrible debt he owed her was a churning sickness in his stomach that often rushed into his throat to warn him that one day it might choke him to death . |
| 13 | She hesitated , but not long enough to show him that this was the simple truth . |
| 14 | This was not the moment to tell him that six people had to put money into a building society for every borrower who took it out , and some of the six must read the paper . |
| 15 | History never had the heart to tell him that great keepers use both hands . |
| 16 | From his excited account I was able to tell him that that was the exact area in which I had , on my last visit , planted a hundred daffodil bulbs . |
| 17 | He 'd gone on saying it until people complained and the landlord was forced to tell him that such talk amounted to the spreading of gloom and despondency ; it was almost as bad as careless talk and would land him in the Bridewell if the police got to hear . |
| 18 | I dashed across to the DC 's house to tell him that this train with several hundred refugees was standing in the station , and some shelter must be found for them . |