Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He thought that he learnt a lot about preaching from this experience . |
| 4 | Later in life Ramsey believed that he learnt a lot from his short time at Liverpool . |
| 5 | Later he knew that he learnt a lot . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The pop singer , Morrissey , was so astounded to discover that some girls ' breasts are bigger than others that he wrote a song about it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lee Horan , however , is fairly sure that he heard a door click at one-forty-five . ’ |
| 11 | And it seemed to him that he heard a voice answer him from within . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The landlord of the Oxford Arms , a pub near Duncan Woods , stated that he heard a gunshot at the appropriate time . |
| 14 | After three years of wrangling , the matter was dropped , though Miller does in the eighth edition of the Dictionary admit that he made a mistake in former publications . |
| 15 | For my part I prefer to imagine that he made a mistake . |
| 16 | He accompanied this with a rude gesture — some say it was a noise , others that he stuck out his tongue , or even that he made a sign with his forearm . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose we just took it that he would , and were n't surprised that he made a pretence of being unconcerned and going his own way about it . |
| 18 | David Blunkett , shadow health secretary , said that he made a speech three weeks ago with very good evidence behind him that the Government was going to engage in redefinition of ‘ nursing care ’ once a patient 's surgery had been completed . |
| 19 | The redoubtable Joseph Parker made four visits although it was not until 1887 that he made a lecture tour which was not a success due to ill health and financial disagreements . |
| 20 | He told me that he made a point of seeing one pantomime a year . |
| 21 | A letter appeared in the Independent pointing out that he made a number of grammatical errors . |
| 22 | Map adds that he made a note of this observation " for it was merrily said , and truly " . |
| 23 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 24 | He made it clear that he thought a minority Labour government would have no right to a dissolution if it was rapidly defeated in the Commons . |
| 25 | Lord Rawdon told the Committee of the whole House of Lords , which read his bill clause by clause in May , that he thought a debtor should be able to swear to the real cause of his debt and , if there was no question of fraud or any intention to abscond , he should not be held in custody for more than eight days and be discharged on filing common bail . |
| 26 | Former owner David Stoddart , who also bred Party Politics , decided to sell the gelding — a move largely influenced by the fact that he retains a five-year-old half-brother , who is the last from the family . |
| 27 | He stepped to one side as Nicholson approached him but made sure that he left a sheet soaked with urine dangling from the trolley , hoping that Nicholson would brush against it . |
| 28 | The consequence was that he returned a par 72 to recede into the pack . |
| 29 | Sara knew that he hoped a change of scene would make her change her mind about Matthew . |
| 30 | A settlor had only to make sure that he chose a word which made clear an intention on his part that a trust obligation should arise in the trustee . |