Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
2 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
3 | He longed then , suddenly , and with a passion that had been suppressed so long that it took him by surprise , for someone to share all this with . |
4 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
5 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
6 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
7 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
8 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
9 | Commenting on the incident , Nguza said that it confirmed him in his decision to suspend the conference . |
10 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
11 | Lovelock sees this dual function as a vital bridge , but others argue that it puts him in an invidious and altogether too powerful position . |
12 | Ken said — he came for Sunday lunch now , often with his stepdaughter but without his wife , who felt awkward in Ellen 's presence — that it reminded him of a kitten he 'd given Wendy on the day she gave birth to Apricot . |