Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 2 | He may be naturally drawn towards a discovery of a state which does not depend on time and space for its reality , but the medium of the imperfect world into which he is born means that : Such knowing and feeling , the mystics say , is given in response to a process — an ordering of the drives in human nature so that they can be expressed as love . |
| 3 | The Minister is a fair-minded man , so he is bound to accept that there are genuine worries . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that known international terrorists do not receive any support from countries in the middle east with which the United Kingdom maintains diplomatic relations . |
| 5 | He is understood to feel that compulsory sales would break up historic estates . |
| 6 | Tom said he is fascinated to learn that her perky personality seemed unchanged in the spirit world . |
| 7 | He is reported to believe that the City Council should be shut down immediately and replaced by an appointed commission to oversee local government in the city . |
| 8 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 9 | The travel agent admits he 's in the wrong and says he 's trying to ensure that Norman Culliford gets at least some of his money back . |
| 10 | He 's trying to show that the glider can be far more than the gentle flying machines they seem from the ground . |
| 11 | He 's starting to realise that by the time he 's in a position to do anything that he wants , there 'll be nothing that he really wants to do . |
| 12 | He was beginning to realize that , a natural fighter , Rose might be down but was never out . |
| 13 | He wondered if Alexei was angry because he had been beaten again , or if maybe he was beginning to realise that there was no way , short of an accident , that he was ever going to be allowed to win . |
| 14 | He was beginning to see that his concept of Art with a capital A was European , based on a classical tradition that was never going to expand to meet the challenge of the new generations of painters because it was defined by its time . |
| 15 | He was beginning to find that he enjoyed the big offworlder 's company , and it was amazing how many things they had in common . |
| 16 | Besides , he was beginning to guess that there might be other games , and if so , he would like to know . |
| 17 | Worst of all , he was beginning to suspect that it might be true . |
| 18 | He was beginning to feel that it may have been a mistake , it may have been wiser to have remained elsewhere . |
| 19 | He was beginning to feel that he had had enough of Yorick . |
| 20 | Though teaching was so wretchedly paid , he was beginning to think that it was the only possible profession for him — passing on information to others gave him such profound pleasure . |
| 21 | Unwisely , he was heard to proclaim that this time he was sure to catch the Fawcetts redhanded ( or , more accurately , up to their fetlocks in feathers ) . |
| 22 | If he did , he was bound to conclude that his vital interests were at stake . |
| 23 | During the third interview , he was asked to confirm that he did not want a solicitor , and he replied ‘ I have n't got a solicitor . ’ |
| 24 | He was given notice that when his employment at Hendon terminated , he could be re-employed at Ruislip as a tester . |
| 25 | He was seen to wave that he was O.K. to one of the other aircraft . |
| 26 | On July 1st he was writing to say that he was back at the studio , and how delightful it was to be free of catheters , bougies , and syringes . |
| 27 | He was led to believe that he would receive better than a university education with Mr. Wickstead as his personal tutor . |
| 28 | In this way he was led to discover that the old laws could not make sense of these situations . |
| 29 | He was fascinated to discover that the Galapagos animals bore a general resemblance to those he had seen on the mainland , but differed from them in detail . |
| 30 | There was a window open on the third floor , but marks consistent with the rubber-soled shoes he was wearing suggested that it was from the parapet in front of the four dormer windows in the roof . |