Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . He said oh he said I 'll have that he said get some |
| 2 | The methods that he chose to investigate this phenomenon were mainly social-psychological , enquiring into the motivations and psychological reactions of individual peasants rather than into the concrete structures and conditions of their lives . |
| 3 | It was only after his second marriage , when he was able to share his life with another human being , that he began to take any real satisfaction in his life 's work . |
| 4 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 5 | Thus , it may be desirable to draw a patient 's attention to any inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour ( e.g. a therapist pointed out to a patient that the latter insisted that he wished to tackle some problem in his home yet arranged to go out every evening with his friends ) . |
| 6 | The Chancellor announced in last November 's Autumn Statement that he wished to enhance this private sector involvement . |
| 7 | It was possible to hear the way he summoned the old man , calling his name in a mocking tone , calling out for his dreams , calling that he wished to eat those dreams . |
| 8 | I do n't know anything about Mr Rochester 's character , but I do know that he offered to marry this young girl , who only discovered during the wedding ceremony that he was in fact already married , to a mad woman . |
| 9 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 10 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 11 | On the odd occasions I met him , I felt that he 'd adopted all these trappings to keep off a world with which he could not cope . |
| 12 | No point in taking trouble with him ; no point in explaining that he 'd walked all the way up to the blooming rectory to set his mind at rest . |
| 13 | ‘ Simon told me , last night , ’ began Gazzer , ‘ that he 'd smashed that kiosk up . |
| 14 | He began crying and shouting — that he 'd known all along she was having an affair and was planning to leave him . |
| 15 | The boy , who ca n't be identified , hit the headlines in June … after revelations that he 'd spent several weeks at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca at tax payers ' expense . |
| 16 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 17 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , he decided that he 'd had enough and wanted to go back to being a teacher . ’ |
| 19 | Bri and I assumed that he 'd had enough of his countrymen and wanted to tune out . |
| 20 | So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts . |
| 21 | Was this a hint that he 'd had enough of her company for tonight ? |
| 22 | And I says only that he 's gone to back to J J and I says , and that he 'd had enough . |
| 23 | They told us that he had insulted most of their friends , and that he dearly loved a political argument . |
| 24 | Constance , who felt that he had said this a thousand times before , usually shrugged impatiently . |
| 25 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 26 | The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste . |
| 27 | He knew , though , that he had to let that anger die a bit before he confronted Sandra . |
| 28 | Part of it , some writers supposed , was a longing for heroes in an age without them , for cleavers of Gordian knots ( as the Wall Street Journal called North ) possessed of simple and shining certitudes ; at the end of North 's testimony even Inouye concluded that he had become another man destined for some piece of important marble in Washington , alongside Lincoln . |
| 29 | And at the same time the racing of her blood was only partly fear , and she could see that he knew it , that he had discovered this power and tuned it to performance pitch , that the insults were a kind of invitation , the display of force a plea turned upside down , and she also wanted , because she longed to please , to take off her clothes then and there and let him down from his prideful pose , and soothe him with her obedience to his rage . |
| 30 | By notice of appeal dated 2 January 1992 , the child appealed against the order on the grounds , inter alia , that the justices erred when they found that he was likely to suffer significant harm as a result of his absconding as no evidence had been produced that he had suffered such harm when he had absconded . |