Example sentences of "he that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , when stationed at Pulham in Norfolk , his commanding officer told him that a naval airship was drifting from the North Sea entirely out of control , as both its engines had broken down . |
| 2 | On this occasion , his uncle , the peppery old Nabob , was bidden to dine at the Cecil Hotel , in order that it might be proved to him that a respectable curry could be had outside the portals of the East India Club . |
| 3 | It never seemed to occur to him that a general idea might be an entirely different sort of thing from an image . |
| 4 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 5 | His success led to some intimacy with the Indians , who told him that a vast sea lay off to the west — a sea , and a land , infinitely rich in gold . |
| 6 | I would hate to have to tell him that a new type of gentleman has taken over the clubs and boardrooms , a man who does not consider dishonesty the property of the criminal classes and who , moreover , believes that the notion of the gentleman is negotiable . |
| 7 | Only sometimes , on very quiet nights , could Frankie hear the hum of traffic or the distant chiming of the Town Hall clock to remind him that a whole city existed beyond the locked gates . |
| 8 | It occurred to him that a full belly was not all he had his tedious employment to thank for . |
| 9 | Subsequent meetings with Dr Reid convinced him that a grave injustice had been done to both the parents of the nine children subject to the dawn raids of 1991 , and to Mrs W and her children , removed in November 1990 and whose disclosures while in care led to the later social work action . |
| 10 | Not only can I confirm my hon. Friend 's figures , I can go further and tell him that an additional £115 million has been invested by the three health authorities that his patients use in Cambridge , Peterborough , and West Norfolk and Wisbech . |
| 11 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 12 | I agree with him that an unsatisfactory situation er was created in our legislation and in passing I would like to say how much we all welcome , I 'm sure the efforts of my Noble Friend to get legislation simplified , but erm on this particular matter which he has raised , I would like to try to comfort him if that is possible , because erm by getting rid of the er the sections two two A and three of the Police Act as they er nineteen sixty four as they have been amended and er substituting this clause to the Bill simplification will in fact have been achieved so far as the form is concerned . |
| 13 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 14 | I told him I should have to publish Sir Hubert 's disclaimer , and warned him that an unedited publication would endanger implementation of an appointment from which Burmans expected so much , and would also lead to an unhappy relationship between the paper and the government . |