Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so he did that fugue … and I suggested other changes too . ’ |
| 2 | For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end . |
| 3 | He always noticed pools of oil and empty coke cans round the house if ever he passed that way . |
| 4 | In 1980–1 , in the first Test to be played on his home ground in Antigua , there was never any doubt that he was going to mark the occasion with a century , and , as we shall see , when England returned five years later he marked that occasion in the most spectacular fashion . |
| 5 | Later he recognized that smell . |
| 6 | Now he proclaimed that inflation was a much more serious threat to national wellbeing than unemployment , which anyway was a greatly overestimated danger , and that what was needed was a much tighter control of the money supply and the budget deficit . |
| 7 | Erm and er and that Audrey or Aubrey and and nobody knew well he ran that bar . |
| 8 | Perhaps he 'll keep it out there , well he had that patch to it did n't he ? |
| 9 | and then , then he got that burger in the bin and he put it in his pocket . |
| 10 | Instead he learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to the throne or slopping back in a sty ; that there are swinish kings and regal hogs ; that the king may envy the pig ; and that the possibilities of the not-life will always change tormentingly to fit the particular embarrassments of the lived life . |
| 11 | And yet he had that smoothness of satiety about him , in his voice , in his smile , even in the touch of his hands . |
| 12 | Yet he views that season as the highlight of his career . |
| 13 | Again he felt that sense of an unseen force , an intense will . |
| 14 | Once again he used that nickname . |