Example sentences of "[that] he [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 2 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 3 | It was followed about twenty years later , in 1271 , by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ( ‘ Robert the Englishman , ) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco . |
| 4 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 5 | Indeed , the author of the work was so outraged by the Government 's claims about what was said in the work that he wrote to the Evening Standard on 1 October and said : ’ We found much to criticise about the British arrangement for training young people . |
| 6 | In the emotionally charged pieces that he wrote from the war front , Nizan pointed up the inescapable fact that the future of France was being decided on the soil of Spain . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 8 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 9 | On the same day that he heard of the post at Shrewsbury , however , another letter reached him , addressed in an unfamiliar hand . |
| 10 | He told him of his experience and was interested to know that the phenomenon is by no means unknown and the other went on to relate another incident involving footsteps that he heard outside the office , but when he opened the door to investigate no one was there . |
| 11 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 12 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 13 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 14 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 15 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 16 | Well in a sense we were able to give this very quiet manner and very enthusiastic , very explicit , very kindly , very polite erm man his chance to relive for a moment erm this great contribution that he made in the past . |
| 17 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |
| 18 | He was a man of considerable literary taste ( I must report , in all modesty , that he subscribed to the Informer and never missed these ‘ jottings ’ ) who died , so the authorities would have us believe , by falling into an empty swimming-pool when drunk on hard-to-come-by malt whisky . |
| 19 | This interconnection between the political and the literary was again visible in the reports that he sent from the Aragon front in August 1936 , following the outbreak of the civil war . |
| 20 | Despite the size of the stables and the fact that he belonged to the world of flat-racing where appearances count for something , Short had made no compromises . |
| 21 | Goff thought that Minton , consciously or unconsciously , divided his friends into two categories , serious and fun — and was aware that he belonged to the first . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that he belonged to the Bozon family of Norfolk , and that he may had studied at Oxford . |
| 23 | It is likely that he belonged to the friary in Nottingham ( he refers to the rivers Trent and Derwent as if they are familiar to him ) . |
| 24 | Very soon , he knew , he would have to choose sides , and despite the success of tonight 's endeavour , and the security he 'd won with it , he was by no means sure that he belonged amongst the ranks of the purgers , even though they were certain to carry the day . |
| 25 | Is it not about time that he said to the 44 million voters who are sick and tired of the phoney election campaign that the general election will be on 9 April ? |
| 26 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 27 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 28 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |
| 29 | His tone suggested that he disapproved of the notion . ’ |
| 30 | The first forest that he imposed upon the world is the world in which I live and through which you are journeying . |