Example sentences of "he [verb] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 2 | An example is provided by one Parkinson , a Victorian clean-up campaigner , whose moral objection to " public dancing " led him to allege that a ballet at the Royal Aquarium had involved a Japanese female catching a butterfly " in the most indecent place you could possibly imagine . " |
| 3 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 4 | The probationers told him to remember that every minute he was getting a little better , and Ward Sister told him not to make any effort , and not to try to take anything by the mouth . |
| 5 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 6 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 7 | A meeting with the area planning officer , about the changing hut on the Stratton Bates recreation ground has resulted in him recommending that the hut be replaced with a building of similar size and in the same location . |
| 8 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 9 | According to Eadmer , it was a small incident which opened Anselm 's eyes to the true state of affairs , and made him realize that the king would in no circumstances allow him to take any action beyond the routine of his episcopal duties . |
| 10 | This leads him to conclude that the Sons of Light , the Sons of Truth , the Sons of Zadok , or Zaddikim ( Zadokites ) , the Men of Melchizedek ( the z-d-k ending reflecting a variation of Zadok ) , the Ebionim ( the Poor ) , the Hassidim ( the Essenes ) and the Nozrim ( the Nazareans ) are ultimately one and the same — not different groups , but different metaphors or appellations for essentially the same group , or the same movement . |
| 11 | His experience of flying this route has led him to conclude that the bravery and daring of the crews who took [ part in these raids was quite remarkable and deserves to be more widely known . |
| 12 | 1956 saw him complaining that the author of an article on ‘ Christian Social Thought ’ had used the word ‘ sociology ’ so that ‘ unless my memory is greatly at fault , Durkheim and Lévy-Bruhl ’ would be excluded from its province . |
| 13 | He told Anne Ridler some time later that such a success almost prompted him to believe that the poem was not very good , although no doubt he was being partly ironic : he was , at least , demonstrating the " usefulness " which a poet might possess in time of war . |
| 14 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 15 | His experience as president of the Scottish Institute had led him to believe that the way forward lay in joining forces with the English and Welsh in a single British Institute of Chartered Accountants , and in 1989 , he spearheaded the Scottish side of the campaign . |
| 16 | in the case of an action arising from making a deposit otherwise than in accordance with conditions specified in a disposal licence , that the defendant took all such steps as were reasonably open to him to ensure that the conditions were complied with ; |
| 17 | May I welcome his decision to hold a public inquiry about these proposals and urge him to ensure that the inquiry is held in such a way , in such a place and at such a time that the concerns of many thousands of people about the proposals can be fully communicated ? |
| 18 | ‘ A year later Hugh Butterworth , chief executive of Clark Whitehill , wrote to him saying that a copy of Mr Young 's will , which included names of most of the investors , had been sent to the Revenue without Clark Whitehill 's permission . ’ |
| 19 | I remember him saying that the person in the anecdote had to remain anonymous since it was still not done for a woman to confess she enjoyed promiscuous , recreational sex . |
| 20 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 21 | His analysis also allows him to argue that the rationality which typifies our social institutions , and our transactions within them , is tending to take the form of strategic ( i.e. cognitive-instrumental ) rationality , rather than a genuinely interactive communicative rationality . |
| 22 | Weber 's vision of increasing rationalization and bureaucratization , under both capitalist and industrial socialist régimes , also led him to think that the advance in civilization would not lead to greater happiness for everyone . |
| 23 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 24 | Had he been in his place on Tuesday , when my right hon. Friend made the opening speech on the Loyal Address , he would have heard him say that the Government would introduce a measure to deal with the young thugs , as my hon. Friend calls them , who indulge in joyriding , a practice which hon. Members in all parts of the House deplore ; those young people will , therefore , be offending . |
| 25 | It is simple enough for him to show that a boxing match takes place within a general totality of ‘ boxing ’ , which is itself only ever present in any individual incarnation , for as a game each match is both an individual bout and something conducted according to general rules and a specific social tradition . |
| 26 | The court held that such a clause was prima facie unreasonable under s 3 , and that , as he had not discharged the burden of proof upon him to show that the clause was reasonable under the circumstances , the plaintiff could not rely on it in order to obtain summary judgment . |
| 27 | We had one anxious telephone call from a Swedish newspaperman , who had run the story in his weekly science column , and was much perturbed when two professors challenged him to prove that the story was true . |
| 28 | The relevant sections state that ‘ it is a defence for him to prove that the failure arose from circumstances beyond his control . ’ |
| 29 | He disclosed that the crisis in the inspectorate had led to 32 vacancies in a professional staff of 135 in October . |
| 30 | During their conversation , he realised that the vision was for the present and not 4 years in the future . |