Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Jackson watched the mating for a short while , the boar 's bulk shoving , the sow bearing him , as if he were seeing that savage , ludicrous event for the first time . |
| 2 | He is assuming that all those people now paid below what his party would bring in as a minimum wage would keep their jobs . |
| 3 | He is awarded that some caterers are worried about this new stricter temperature ruling but has faith in his staff 's ability to stay within the law . |
| 4 | He is saddened that many firms in this position are unwilling to accept an equity stake from outside institutions , on the grounds that this will reduce the firm 's control over the venture . |
| 5 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 6 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 7 | Unlike Dunleavy , however , he is saying that any ‘ conservatising ’ effect of home ownership is a result of the real economic interests people have in the economic value of their properties . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He 's heard that some of the shots will be with female models . |
| 10 | He 's suggesting that joint sentence formulation is quite common in everyday informal conversation , and that there are certain syntactic strategies which promote this kind of collaboration between speakers , |
| 11 | Jesus is not suggesting there are some who are righteous and some who are sinners , because we 're all sinners , all have sinned but he 's suggesting that those who do n't realize and acknowledge they 're sinners , he says , I have n't come to call you . |
| 12 | Yet he 's found that several other farmers have been experiencing the fecund year . |
| 13 | Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ? |
| 14 | And he 's saying that that flesh can have something , that human nature can undergo a miracle ! |
| 15 | I mean if , if he 's saying that these were amazing things and they |
| 16 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 17 | He was hoping that such a system of signs , reflecting English usage and grammar , might be acceptable as a tool for teaching to oralist teachers . |
| 18 | Boyd believed firmly that all women were incurably avaricious and was certain that , once Olga knew about the book , she would try to squeeze most of the proceeds of it out of Hank ; and , to his credit , he was determined that this should not happen . |
| 19 | It is clear that he was considering that that extension would add two further bedrooms . |
| 20 | He was told that such a reference might cause embarrassment to some of the pupils . |
| 21 | Mr Appleby said he was told that one problem was that the crew did n't have time to clear the ferry properly because of the tight turnaround schedule en route . |
| 22 | In response to his requests for assurances on the safety of control over nuclear weapons , he was told that nuclear weapons remained under single control and that disarmament was continuing according to plan . |
| 23 | Mr Torode says he was told that those supporting the Government 's views on blasphemy were excluded . |
| 24 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 25 | Already he was arguing that these three different ideologies were facets of the same truth . |
| 26 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 27 | When he was notified that 200 unemployed marchers were expected from Ampthill , however , he arranged for them to occupy the Drill Hall in George Street for sleeping and feeding . |
| 28 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 29 | Yet only weeks ago he was saying that existing derelict land was needed for greening the cities , and providing amenities for citizens . |