Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 2 | The reason why this occurred er erm , the reason why this occurred was not due to some sort of er , due to emotional problems that he suffered within these repressed relations with his son . |
| 3 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |
| 4 | So too do most of his other notes and jottings and — more important — most of the substantial pieces of work that he wrote during this period . |
| 5 | I understand that he wrote to all members of the Cabinet asking them to turn up and support him in the votes after previous debates on this project . |
| 6 | Erm in the letters that he wrote to this bloke . |
| 7 | We have seen that he personally undertook the defences of the south coast when the king campaigned in the North , and that he wrote in warm praise of the king 's energy and practical wisdom , and ordered prayers for his protection against the malice of evil men who hated the king s good qualities . |
| 8 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 9 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 10 | Should not the right hon. Gentleman now apologise for the false promises that he made in 1991 ? |
| 11 | If they confirm that he left at one-thirty , then that does n't give him much time to have entered Randall Lodge and killed Wetherby ; he was practically at Ollerton by two a.m. , driving slowly despite being in his Daimler . |
| 12 | That he did not depart of his own free will is abundantly evidenced by the fact that he left behind all his belongings and expressed the intention of being back within the period of four hours . |
| 13 | After a while , Ackroyd thought that he belonged to one of the local farms , and that because of his pale complexion he was recovering from an illness . |
| 14 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 15 | ‘ Is it the fact that he rambles on that bores you , or the fact that you do n't want to talk about what life 's about ? ’ |
| 16 | This would be the last call , and after that the heat of the office at Century that he shared with two others . |
| 17 | But what remains important about Barthes 's substantive work is that he points to cultural phenomena in the everyday realm that are ( or were ) regarded as insignificant — they are , he reveals , laden with meaning and social and political significance . |
| 18 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 19 | It was such a shame that he felt like that and could n't recognize the true and deep affection that Terry , Brian and I had for him . |
| 20 | He , of course , did deliver and was able to record in his diary finally that he felt in such a buoyant mood that he could fly . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is no accident that he began at last to find his true identity as a painter , although his dream of sculpting still haunted him . |
| 22 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
| 23 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 24 | In Scale 1 he protests that he speaks of more than he has directly experienced : In the second book which complements the material in the first , there is an often remarked upon change of tone : the reservation and distancing of Scale 1 is absent from the imagistic structures which embody his thought and insight in Scale 2 . |
| 25 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 26 | ‘ But it raises fewer objections than the first theory , that he came in half-naked and armed with a razor and yet there are no obvious signs that Berowne put up any resistance . ’ |
| 27 | Belfast 's European champion produced a quite stunning performance which totally belied his relative immaturity and made a mockery of the fact that he went into this fight with no world rating of any description . |
| 28 | with the little children that he went with last year died during the year she was a West Indian or something two lovely little children gone somewhere else to live with their aunt , . |
| 29 | To my fourteen-year-old mind , his cleanliness was connected in some mysterious way to the fact that he went to public school and liked classical music . |
| 30 | Mecdi , in his article on Molla Husrev , says that he went in 877/1472–3 but gives no indication of the date of his return . |