Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 2 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |
| 3 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 4 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 5 | It was there that he filled in the winning coupon , using a lucky pixie : |
| 6 | Such was his disillusionment that he gave up the practice of medicine for a while and supported himself and his growing family by undertaking translation work , at the same time pursuing his chemical and botanical studies . |
| 7 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 8 | During this time he developed an interest in art , to such an extent that he gave up the security of work in 1846 . |
| 9 | It came to him , just like a flash of lightning and he was so excited that he picked up the telephone and rang Dennis Hopper in Los Angeles . |
| 10 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 11 | But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance , his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality " was " if not exactly intimidating , at least restraining " . |