Example sentences of "[noun] he [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was accused , quite erroneously , of siphoning money from school funds he honestly believed that everyone would realise that there 'd been a mistake . ’ |
| 2 | And in his discussion of the parts played by people of exceptional talent he simply asserts that these individual capacities are to be explained as the result of social circumstances . |
| 3 | To American critics of his open-handedness he firmly replied that the British were " true allies " , but he was equally emphatic that he could see no reason for a French nuclear arsenal . |
| 4 | With a chilling prophecy he then stated that it would be the task of a great leader , Hitler for preference , to march into Russia in the next five years and place one half of the population in the lethal chamber and the other half in the zoo . |
| 5 | There was no reason for it , except that when he was talking to Jimmy Williams he regularly felt that Jimmy required his interlocutors to act a part . |
| 6 | When Kenneth MacAlpin decreed that his capital should be moved to Scone he also ensured that the Stone of Destiny went with him . |
| 7 | Having pointed out the peculiarity and arbitrariness of this notion he then assumes that , in other systems , the relation of man to his material environment is visualized differently . |
| 8 | With Bevin he also believed that Britain would have much less influence in Washington without some nuclear capability of her own . |
| 9 | Once Charlie had returned to the relief trenches he quickly discovered that only three men in his section of ten had survived the charge , and there was no sign of Tommy . |
| 10 | In his memoirs he rightly insists that the 1980 election ‘ did not represent a revolution in American values . |
| 11 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 12 | Regrettably , using the same experimental techniques he also found that red-leaf cabbage , beets and cauliflower have the opposite effect and appear to be carcinogenic . |
| 13 | Nu said openly that , ‘ although the London agreement looked very well on paper he strongly suspected that HMG had first of all made sure that the frontier peoples would not agree to any form of union with Burma ’ . |
| 14 | Before this season he always knew that we could n't survive without him , but now we can , now we have another star . |
| 15 | If he tried to return to Earth in defiance of his oath he strongly suspected that he might never be allowed to reach the homeworld … |
| 16 | In this case he clearly decided that the sampo was at once a thing and an allegory , like the Silmarils : a jewel , bright , hypnotic , intrinsically valuable , but also the quintessence of the creative powers , provoking both good and evil , the maker 's personality itself . |
| 17 | Chapman 's handling of players was based on a calculated appraisal of each man 's temperament , and in Hulme 's case he obviously considered that a sharp rebuff and a spell in the third team would boost his determination to improve his game . |
| 18 | This led him towards ideas of conservation of energy , and of a unified field ; he believed that light and magnetism must act upon one another , and to the astonishment of contemporaries he indeed demonstrated that a magnetic field will rotate the plane of polarization of polarized light . |
| 19 | Within a few days of his election he already knew that the way to realize this ‘ new Pentecost ’ was an Ecumenical Council . |
| 20 | In addition he also found that the coursework requirements have encouraged pupils to see each project or course element as being more relevant , which has increased their output of work as well as their motivation . |
| 21 | In Grimes he also showed that the same is true of the act of setting drama to music . |
| 22 | It seemed ridiculous , but a frown crossed his face when he remembered that in a very short time the hard fiat sand that he was walking on would be thirty feet under the water of one of the most unpredictable estuaries in the world He also knew that the tide was usually preceded by a rising wind |
| 23 | In this letter he specifically requests that the girls responsible for the utter fiasco , which should have been our broomstick display last year , are to be kept away from this year 's display so that he can relax and enjoy the events taking place . |
| 24 | The Commander-in-Chief in 1939 felt it necessary to review his " troops ' ; and when he came to Driffield he obviously felt that the Occasion was so important that he spoke to the officers in one corner of the hangar and spoke to the sergeant pilots in another . |
| 25 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 26 | In the end he almost believed that Sredni Vashtar himself had sent the toothache . |
| 27 | But this difficulty was quickly and neatly overcome : the man who hired the car — a man , yes ! — gave the telephone number of The Randolph , and as the firm 's representative was dialling the number he casually mentioned that the Deputy Manageress of The Randolph could be immediately contacted on a certain extension . |
| 28 | In addition to demonstrating the ease with which rats substitute one movement for another in reaching their goal he also demonstrated that cutting the nerve fibres that join the visual to the motor cortex does not interfere with associative learning , as Pavlov had predicted it would . |
| 29 | To get over the problem he sometimes insisted that he was Welsh , claiming that the Welsh disliked the English as much as the Icelanders . |
| 30 | In press interviews he arrogantly stated that the Italian schools of dance were too exacting , too inflexible . |