Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long he lay against Mick he did n't know ; he only knew that between the sounds he had been emitting and the wash of tears that seemed to have drained him dry , a voice within him had kept repeating : ‘ She killed your father , Mick ; she killed your father . |
| 2 | She pronounces ‘ liver ’ with a long vowel , so that for a second he thinks she is asking if he likes geese saliva . |
| 3 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 4 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
| 5 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |
| 6 | The thought of Montaine was so arresting that for a moment he could not speak . |
| 7 | If I beckon , she will certainly come to me ! he thought , and his mind whirled , so that for a moment he barely saw the waiting Fiana candidates and the glittering Sun Chamber . |
| 8 | He opened the door but the dimness inside was such that for a moment he could see little ; then , as his eyes accommodated , he saw Maurice standing , pressed against the far wall as though he wanted to vanish through it . |
| 9 | The dust was so thick that for a moment he could not see . |
| 10 | However , if the deal were , for instance , a 90 : 10 split and not a gross deal , the promoter would realize that for every pound he or she spends on costs , 90 pence of that pound belongs to the artist . |
| 11 | Presumably Philip judged that for the moment he had no means of putting pressure on either Henry or Richard which would be both legitimate and effective . |
| 12 | It transpired that during the war he had been a medical officer in the German Wehrmacht fighting on the Eastern Front . |
| 13 | The news reached Napoleon III just before he left the Tuileries to distribute the prizes to the successful exhibitors , and observers noticed , without at that stage knowing the reason , that during the ceremony he seemed even more abstracted than usual . |
| 14 | Yes , he was fascinated by Suedehead and its lurid tale of violence against blacks and homosexuals , but do n't forget that as a kid he had a strong affection for gore and horror in general . |
| 15 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 16 | His greatest asset , of course , is that as a man he is so well liked . |
| 17 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |
| 18 | It hardly matters , given the man ; the essence , his core , a sly pederast ( Parker was a regular subscriber to magazines entitled such as Boy and Superboy , Kim and Pim ) ; he thought it best , and he felt safer ( it was his constant dread that the magazines — delivered from an English P.O. box number — should go adrift or burst in transit ) that as a cover-up he acted crude ; and he did it so well ( it might be a hateful zest for what he could not have ) that you would have never thought . |
| 19 | Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age . |
| 20 | Just as Goscelin claims to have listened to a monk who had known St Wulfsige of Sherborne ( d. 1002 ) , Osbern of Canterbury says that as a boy he heard an account of the translation of the relics of St Ælfheah in 1023 from a monk who was involved in it . |
| 21 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 22 | Mr Leigh also highlighted the tensions in Government by revealing that as a minister he had organised other meetings of junior ministers in opposition to the Maastricht Bill paving the way for closer European ties . |
| 23 | His sister Elizabeth remembered that as a child he half closed his eyes at meal times as he sat with his family . |
| 24 | He boasts of his restaurant in Barnes , assures the actors that as a restaurateur he , too , is something of a performer ( ’ flambe is not flambe without flair ’ ) , and laughs delightedly at his own jokes . |
| 25 | And yet in its closing passages we learn that as a poet he had ‘ no real predecessors ’ . |
| 26 | In particular , cost benefit analysis was not used , largely because Gower professed that as a lawyer he was not competent to carry out such an appraisal ( Gower Report paragraph 1.16 ) . |
| 27 | IAN BOTHAM , cricket 's most entertaining all rounder , showed last night that as a comedian he is a great batsman and an even better bowler . |
| 28 | Ramsey knew that as a bishop he had a teaching ministry , and that this needed a journal which was more than diocesan news . |
| 29 | Tolkien never mentions reading this , but it is unlikely that as a medievalist he did not . |
| 30 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |