Example sentences of "that he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world . |
| 2 | He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy . |
| 3 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 4 | He was coughing so much that he made himself sick . |
| 5 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
| 6 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 7 | Full-back Ernie Rhodes hailed from Tees-side , but he joined the Palace as a young man in the summer of 1913 , making his Palace debut in the ensuing season , although it was after the Great War that he made his major contribution . |
| 8 | If pressed , most of us would say that he deepened our understanding of human nature , and that he made us aware that the mind of Man is complex and contradictory . |
| 9 | I understand that he made it complete . ’ |
| 10 | But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse . |
| 11 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 12 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |
| 13 | She closed her eyes and was uncertain what soothed the effects of his brutishness most — the fact that he thought her good enough to tackle the Palmer & Pearson work , the fact that he thought her brainy , or the fact that he thought her beautiful . |
| 14 | She closed her eyes and was uncertain what soothed the effects of his brutishness most — the fact that he thought her good enough to tackle the Palmer & Pearson work , the fact that he thought her brainy , or the fact that he thought her beautiful . |
| 15 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 16 | She closed her eyes and was uncertain what soothed the effects of his brutishness most — the fact that he thought her good enough to tackle the Palmer & Pearson work , the fact that he thought her brainy , or the fact that he thought her beautiful . |
| 17 | In spite of his plans , as late as January 1938 Hitler told Colonel Beck that he considered the Danzig arrangements binding , that he thought it possible to accommodate Poland and that he had no territorial claims to make . |
| 18 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 19 | To Dennis 's in the sense that he thought he could act as team-boss without regard for Niki ; to Niki 's in that he thought his personal world outweighed Dennis 's and the team 's . |
| 20 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 21 | Alexander Vass was subtly demonstrating that he chose his own time and his own way of doing things . |
| 22 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 23 | It was then that he felt his true strength as an eagle coming at last . |
| 24 | And , whatever the visual indications in the Sussex match , he whispered to me — marginally out of the skipper 's hearing — that he felt his natural skill was to spin the ball rather than flight . |
| 25 | Newbon disclosed that he told his former managing director a couple of years ago : ‘ I could get Oxford United very cheaply , ’ — but his boss was n't interested . |
| 26 | He said that social security benefits , which are tied to movements in the Retail Price Index , would reflect the change , but that he recognised its particular impact on people with low incomes and therefore Peter Lilley would take it into account when benefits were uprated next year . |
| 27 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 28 | But he denied claims that he harassed his 25-year-old secretary . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've had an impression for over a year now that he meets someone special at these conventions . |
| 30 | It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard . |