Example sentences of "that he [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For surely it is true that whosoever will understand British politics before all things it is necessary that he comprehend the events of 1931 . ' |
| 2 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 3 | The court heard that he made the calls after a drinking spree celebrating his 19th birthday three weeks ago . |
| 4 | In this way , the student can gain confidence by knowing that he made the decisions and that they were sensible ones . |
| 5 | He told the ECHO that he thought the teachers ' action which has left thousands of exam papers unopened , was a ‘ great tragedy ’ . |
| 6 | Faculty chairman Peter Wyman told ACCOUNTANCY that he thought the editorials were ‘ outrageous ’ . |
| 7 | He said afterwards that he thought the explanations he had given regarding the crisis had satisfied the King . |
| 8 | He did not think Ramsey 's scholarship a weighty part of his quality as a bishop ; occasionally he hinted that he thought the books were a distraction from pastoral care . |
| 9 | Gatting also maintains that he respects the views of people like Derek Pringle , who have strongly criticised the decision to allow the rebels back early . |
| 10 | The atmosphere was acrid , as shown by Louis Johnson 's opening remarks that he hoped the deliberations would not be leaked by the State Department . |
| 11 | People think that her half-brother sent the man to get money from her , and that he shared the profits . |
| 12 | ‘ use threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ’ This point is best proved by taking a statement from a witness to say that he felt the words or behaviour were threatening , abusive or insulting . |
| 13 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |
| 14 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 15 | He says that he likes the flowers , but could they make Cheltenham a winner ? |
| 16 | At the same time his portrayal of Frodo quietly sliding down to sleep , dismissal and an oblivion which would include ents , elves , dwarves and the whole of Middle-earth , shows that he recognised the limits of his own wishes and their non-correspondence with reality . |
| 17 | It is a written undertaking from a bank that it will pay the exporter provided that he meets the terms of the credit — i.e. supplies the bank with the shipping documents stipulated by the importer . |
| 18 | Kriel responded immediately , saying that he took the allegations very seriously and promising an investigation , but he dismissed the suggestion that the police were out of control . |
| 19 | He said that he respected the views of his colleagues at SO , but added that they obviously had taken their decision on the information they had , while the SSO was still in the process of getting information from the management about the proposal . |
| 20 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
| 21 | Barr stated that he accepted the recommendations in the report and had created a special unit in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department to pursue the matter . |
| 22 | A publican or tobacconist who , in good faith , sells his goods to a 15-year-old who looks 20 has committed a crime , unless he successfully employs the permitted defence that he sold the goods innocently . |
| 23 | Edward probably realized , after the failure of the Rheims campaign , that he lacked the resources to mount the kind of campaign that would be necessary to compel the French to accept the Treaty of London . |
| 24 | It had been a recurrent problem of Edward 's early years that he lacked the resources to reward all his leading supporters , and by 1469 he was left with very little room for manoeuvre . |
| 25 | Earlier , he had complained that he lacked the resources to investigate all the allegations of corruption against government officials . |
| 26 | It had been a recurrent problem of Edward 's early years that he lacked the resources to reward all his leading supporters , and by 1469 he was left with very little room for manoeuvre . |
| 27 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 28 | Palmer ( 1988 : 199 ) proposes that when followed by the to infinitive , verbs of perception function as verbs of reporting , so that He saw the children to be eating their lunch means " He reported the children to be eating their lunch " . |
| 29 | It is pleasant to record that after a two-month trial period , James King was happily settled in a new apprenticeship to a stonemason of St. Paul 's , John Andrews , and that he signed the indentures ‘ without aid or assistance ’ . |
| 30 | She omitted to mention that , when they last made representations to the bookseller , Mr Pascall , he had said that he stocked the books he could sell ; and if the ladies wanted him to sell better books they should take to buying them and reading them , instead of watching television all day . |