Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 2 | Alexander Vass was subtly demonstrating that he chose his own time and his own way of doing things . |
| 3 | Newbon disclosed that he told his former managing director a couple of years ago : ‘ I could get Oxford United very cheaply , ’ — but his boss was n't interested . |
| 4 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 5 | His father persuaded the minister to conduct the funeral service without reference to the fact that he took his own life . |
| 6 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |
| 7 | Conscious that Marie-Claire was listening to every word , Melissa hesitated for a moment before saying , ‘ It is believed that he took his own life . ’ |
| 8 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
| 9 | An inquiry into the death of a yachtsman during the British Steel Challenge has heard that he took his own life . |
| 10 | Frequently , moreover , there appears to be little concern that advice should be available to the teacher or headmaster , to ensure that he uses what few resources he has to best effect . |
| 11 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 12 | When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out . |
| 13 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
| 14 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |
| 15 | Now that he owned his own studio by the banks of the River Colne he could play the mogul to the technicians , artists and directors he had gathered there . |
| 16 | This experience had such a dramatic effect on the Pole that he hanged himself some days later . |
| 17 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 18 | Not that he plays them all that well , ’ he admitted , thoughtfully watching the harried youngster trying to be as tall as his tallest and most formidable charge . |
| 19 | Libion , the kindly café proprietor , was so exasperated that he had them all thrown out . |
| 20 | But we can see that he had something more to work on than the Roman thirst for gold . |
| 21 | And when it was obvious that he had nothing more to say , they lay down on their cots , pulled up their blankets and turned their faces to the wall . |
| 22 | His volume of business was such that he had his own warehouse , built during the 1830s , in Gloucester docks . |
| 23 | but other than that he mimics everything this one does , but cos it 's in a softer tone than when Cork does it , he sounds quite funny . |
| 24 | I often told him — and so did Tate — that he did himself less than justice by being content to stand in Tate 's shadow . |
| 25 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 26 | Anyway , there is no hint that he gave her any encouragement at all . |
| 27 | The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he believes his own propaganda . |
| 28 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 29 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 30 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |