Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east . |
| 2 | For surely it is true that whosoever will understand British politics before all things it is necessary that he comprehend the events of 1931 . ' |
| 3 | Stone , a man who has a strong sense of his own importance if nothing else , has told Premiere magazine that he hopes the film will be a ‘ Vietnamese Gone With The Wind ’ . |
| 4 | He says that he hopes the visit will finaly allay any fears people may have . |
| 5 | It was clear from Mr Lamont 's comments that he hopes the restructuring of the system will improve the investment climate for larger projects which create the bulk of the jobs in platform yards and oil-related engineering work . |
| 6 | We do not expect that he perused every word of the book . |
| 7 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 8 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 9 | The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month . |
| 10 | He thought that he learnt a lot about preaching from this experience . |
| 11 | Later in life Ramsey believed that he learnt a lot from his short time at Liverpool . |
| 12 | Later he knew that he learnt a lot . |
| 13 | If Italy provided Ramsay with the polish of sophistication and a kind of classical elegance , it was from the French that he learnt a quality he was to make quite his own : gracefulness . |
| 14 | It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair . |
| 15 | The pop singer , Morrissey , was so astounded to discover that some girls ' breasts are bigger than others that he wrote a song about it . |
| 16 | It was no doubt in this jocular spirit that he wrote a letter to The Times on 29 November suggesting the need of a Society for the Preservation of Ancient Cheeses . |
| 17 | Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem . |
| 18 | It said , In this house ( and the ceramic of the plaque had broken and the name was missing ) stayed on his first visit to the city , and it was here that he wrote the opening pages of his greatest work . |
| 19 | Wordsworth tells us that he wrote The Prelude in order to give an account of the growth of his mind , which may help to account for the inclusion of some of the stranger incidents . |
| 20 | That he wrote the book of the Falcon , |
| 21 | ( it 's regrettable that he wrote the letter ) he wrote the letter sadly |
| 22 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |
| 23 | Lee Horan , however , is fairly sure that he heard a door click at one-forty-five . ’ |
| 24 | And it seemed to him that he heard a voice answer him from within . |
| 25 | Herbert Kretzmer wrote in the Daily Express that he heard a voice call out , ‘ Rubbish ’ — to which he himself responded : ‘ Though I find this kind of boorishness both repulsive and depressing I am bound to state that the solitary heckler was probably articulating a mood felt by many . |
| 26 | The landlord of the Oxford Arms , a pub near Duncan Woods , stated that he heard a gunshot at the appropriate time . |
| 27 | He would stoop slightly and listen attentively while you spoke to him , as if it were important that he heard every word , gently sliding his spectacles up the bridge of his nose as he did so . |
| 28 | It was then that he heard the scream . |
| 29 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 30 | He says that he heard the plane 's engine cut out . |