Example sentences of "[verb] he that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But Chinese philosophy ( well , the odd book about it , anyway ) tells him that great opportunity and great danger are two sides of the same coin . |
| 32 | I remind him that great improvements have been made not only in the amount of assistance that is available to people who are unemployed , but in the amount of assistance to ensure that people receive training so that they can get back into work . |
| 33 | I do not know who the hon. Gentleman thinks he is speaking for , but I remind him that these people are volunteers and join with the approval of their parents . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ At the moment , it seems impossible to convince him that any kind of action at all is necessary . ’ |
| 36 | It depressed him that some observers thought the debate would be used ‘ as a way of paying off some scores , real or imagined ’ . |
| 37 | It was the war itself which convinced him that economic planning by the State was necessary to prevent a return to mass unemployment . |
| 38 | His experience of the committee-managed Union convinced him that personal guidance was the safest way to run any enterprise . |
| 39 | ‘ He will be nursing a secret desire to try to make amends , even though everyone has reassured him that these things happen . |
| 40 | The two-way division agreed at Aachen in March 842 is best seen as a way of putting pressure on Lothar , convincing him that this time he had no alternative to opening negotiations in earnest . |
| 41 | It was apparently Da Ponte who persuaded the emperor to pass the text , telling him that all scenes which might offend good taste or public decency had been excised . |
| 42 | Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent . |
| 43 | ( Ms Obholzer blocked that exit by telling him that domestic gas in Vienna was now non-lethal . ) |
| 44 | Commentators claimed that Mubarak was enraged and embarrassed by Iraq 's invasion , after he had announced in late July [ see p. 37632 above ] that Saddam had assured him that Iraqi forces would not move into Kuwait . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | History never had the heart to tell him that great keepers use both hands . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |