Example sentences of "[verb] he that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants had previously sent the shop manager a letter instructing him that these shoes were not to leave the shop without the label first being removed . |
| 2 | Another part of him — not a customs officer — told him that guilty people were dangerous , and he wondered in panic what she would do . |
| 3 | Sentencing Harris , Lord Sutherland , told him that attempted murders involving such lethal weapons were becoming far too prevalent . |
| 4 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 5 | When she resumed her story her voice was different , flat and uninflected , as she told him that one day a journalist and a photographer had come to Chastlecombe to do a feature on the shopping arcade for the colour magazine of one of the Sunday papers . |
| 6 | Louise told him that young children were n't allowed in the front of cars . |
| 7 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 8 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 9 | Also on Feb. 24 Qian had an unscheduled meeting with Takeshita when he told him that full normalization of Sino-Japanese relations could hinge on Japan 's " correct understanding of history " . |
| 10 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 11 | I think he favours an intimate setting , but , ’ and Simone laughed , ‘ I told him that engaged women only favour intimate settings when it 's with their fiancé . |
| 12 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 13 | Mr Charkin 's research — difficult because of the very large number of publishers in the business , most unquoted — has shown him that average profits are usually less than 5% of turnover . |
| 14 | Legally I still owe him that wretched money — whether or not I produce the sorts of designs he wants . ’ |
| 15 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 16 | Actually , he admitted in private that Sir Isidore Salmon had told him that continued support of the British Union of Fascists would mean the withdrawal of all Lyons 's advertisements from the Daily Mail , as well as any other financial inconveniences which could be arranged . |
| 17 | I have told him that COED CYMRU can have eight pages , provided he can raise a minimum of £1,000 to cover its production costs . |
| 18 | Mr Slade 's extensive breeding programme within his flock of 400 pedigree ewes has convinced him that terminal sires do not have to be ‘ big and long ’ . |
| 19 | I can assure him that fair play is what he has got in this case . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I assure him that those constituents who seek help from our staff in the Huddersfield jobcentre , and in other jobcentres throughout the country , will find that the charter means that they can identify the people with whom they are dealing because they are wearing name identification badges . |
| 22 | I also reassured him that European Community funding arrangements are in place , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 24 | Minch had taught him that neither feeling was useful to an eagle unless it was controlled . |
| 25 | You remember , you rushed out on Christmas Eve and got him that electric blanket … |
| 26 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 27 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 28 | You ca n't falsely tell him that criminal proceedings will be taken as a result of non-payment . |
| 29 | Thirdly I can tell him that eighty percent of prescribed items are now free of charge compared with sixty percent in nineteen seventy nine . |
| 30 | I can also tell him that urban aid of £9.7 million has been made available over the years for homelessness projects in Scotland . |