Example sentences of "he [verb] certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping the paperwork straight might not be glamorous but it was eighty per cent of the battle as he well knew , and he made certain his staff did too . |
| 2 | I am satisfied that the deceased encouraged the plaintiff in the belief that all the property he possessed at the date of his death would pass to her , and I do not consider that the fact that he made certain gifts during his lifetime , and indicated a wish to make others , including the gift of a legacy to the plaintiff 's son is inconsistent with such a belief . |
| 3 | However , he mistook certain war-time conditions in the main belligerent states as being irreversible changes . |
| 4 | He recommended certain books . |
| 5 | To Billy she was quite as affectionate , but as the days passed he became certain that she was pregnant . |
| 6 | Cadfael considered , when he came to think it out afterwards , that that was the moment when he became certain that Tutilo had not killed , had not ever imagined that his deceit was putting another soul in danger of death . |
| 7 | It was all horribly sordid , but the more he thought about it , the more he became certain that , far from being a disaster , leaving the Highways Department was in fact a real step forward . |
| 8 | Will he make certain that , in no circumstances , will there be an mismatch in terms of that basic training ? |
| 9 | Although Teague has resumed light training , he looks certain to miss England 's match against Fiji on 4 November and has told his club that he does not expect to be fit until the middle of next month . |
| 10 | Thus the policy-maker is invariably in the position where he has certain aspirations in terms of macroeconomic objectives , but he has to decide which are to be given priority . |
| 11 | The first was the importance of man 's biological base , that is , that man belongs to a species which has to survive in a material environment , and that he has certain innate drives or instincts which affect his behaviour , although they do not determine it . |
| 12 | ‘ He has certain claims , of course . ’ |
| 13 | He visited certain continental veterinary schools in 1815 and 1816 , but did not submit his report on these visits to the governors until June 1818 . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 15 | He admired certain individuals . |
| 16 | In desperation then he ordered certain solid objects in the Residency to be carried out to arrest that dreadful bleeding away of earth . |
| 17 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 18 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 19 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |
| 20 | Corbett , acting his part , looked nervously back down the street and said he needed certain potions . |
| 21 | He seems certain to face a General Medical Council disciplinary hearing , and his practice is being sued . |
| 22 | Acting bravely and with initiative during the mutiny , he is oppressed with shame when he remembers certain arrogant and cruel actions of his against the crew . |
| 23 | Instead he makes you privy to the way he took certain shots , coping with available light , wind , wet knees and so on . |
| 24 | How firmly he clung to doctrine , and much he feared certain dangers … |
| 25 | The Labour leader said he felt certain Cabinet ministers should consider their positions too . |
| 26 | Somewhere down in the depths , he felt certain , lay Marius Steen 's gun , thrown away after the murder was committed . |
| 27 | This , he felt certain , could be no act . |
| 28 | She was a party to his deception , he felt certain . |
| 29 | He felt certain that Paul Lexington had been trying to pull a fast one on his coproducer . |
| 30 | Cornelius did not possess a machine that could predict the future , but he felt certain he knew just how this tale was going to end . |