Example sentences of "that he [verb] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was there , he said , that he acquired the three enthusiasms of his life — politics , religion , and books . |
| 2 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 3 | A taxi driver , who was with his parked vehicle at the bus turnabout , told the court that he saw the three other taxi men talking together . |
| 4 | It was when he finally reached the end of the turning by the Rotherhithe.Tunnel entrance that he saw the three standing together across the street . |
| 5 | Now , with the stilling of the engines , the sudden silence was so absolute that he saw the three motionless figures as if they were a tableau of dummies in a silent world . |
| 6 | How could he explain to the old woman sitting opposite him that he wore a five thousand pound watch ? |
| 7 | The result , therefore , is a framed narrative without a frame narrator — not that he reached the two sides of this conclusion simultaneously . |
| 8 | Saturday lunchtime was the only time Selwyn visited the pub , owing to the fact that he kept a fifteen gallon cask of cider in his garden shed . |
| 9 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 10 | She knew that he had a hundred pounds , probably more . |
| 11 | The opponent in the West seat had made a call of a weak 2 Hearts , which suggested that he had a 6 card Heart suit and not many high cards in his hand . |
| 12 | The commission 's recommendations to Mr Lang included that he require the two officials to pay a sum he considered appropriate to the council . |
| 13 | It was then that he noticed the two men standing behind the butler in the shadows . |
| 14 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 15 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 16 | His wife wash d and shaved him , and ensured that he swallowed the twenty-six pills each day which had been mainly prescribed for his heart . |
| 17 | It was at this time , too , that he forged the one consistent thread of his life — the love of his family . |
| 18 | It was at this time , too , that he forged the one consistent thread of his life — the love of his family . |
| 19 | A few pages would not suffice to describe an idea that he required a thousand pages of his Life Divine to illumine ; my purpose in giving these few passages is to point in one of the directions that the creative mind can travel to find other worlds of serene delight and magnificence . |