Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Charlie and Tommy climbed through the ropes , Tommy had made it clear to his friend that he hoped to get away with three minutes ' shadow-boxing . |
| 2 | Yes , I was surprised because it 's an unusual course for a judge to take , but I was very encouraged that he chose to do so by the terms of his remarks . |
| 3 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 4 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 5 | The very mention of her name awoke old pains ; it was only much later on that he began to wonder how Thomas knew about Alice atte Bowe . |
| 6 | At first the main change was that he began to give away quite a lot of money , mainly to Worcestershire charities . |
| 7 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |
| 8 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 9 | There were brief explorations across her warm , soft cheek , her eyes , her nose , but always , always , he returned to that sweet source that he seemed to find so fascinating — until eventually , light-years later , he lifted his head . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life . |
| 11 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 12 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |
| 13 | The indetermination that he sought to banish increasingly returned to haunt him ; he could never demonstrate how the unceasing totalization of multiplicity would ever reach its promised moment of finality . |
| 14 | I was astonished that he agreed to come down with you . |
| 15 | Carlos Abadia , leader of the broad-based opposition movement National Civic Crusade ( NCC ) , claimed that it was well known that Ford wished to stand for the presidency in 1994 and that he wished to give up his ministerial post " to reduce the political pressure on him " . |
| 16 | Each executive selected an episode that he wished to redesign so that it would not have negative consequences . |
| 17 | Some of the pieces began to fit but there was a great deal more that he wished to find out . |
| 18 | A severe critic of the statutes of 1861 might respond to the question " Why did Alexander II free the serfs ? " by saying that he failed to do so . |
| 19 | The defendant then complained that the trial judge had failed to direct the jury adequately with regard to the defendant 's previous good character in that he failed to point out that this is primarily relevant to the question of credibility . |
| 20 | It was cruel that he had to die so soon after all he had suffered ; it would have been more cruel if he had died alone , in the dark , knowing that rescue was at hand ; at least he knew the relief of the rescue and died in the comfort of his own bed . |
| 21 | Delaney knew that he had to talk more with Nell , and warn the others . |
| 22 | When Cliff went to Bangladesh he was already a member of Tear Fund but when he saw the suffering he felt that he had to do more and was ready to give up his singing career and follow his religious instincts to help these people . |
| 23 | She was walking so fast now , circling the camp , that he had to jog along to keep up . |
| 24 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 25 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 26 | But from 12 December he knew that he had to move somewhere , under orders . |
| 27 | Michael , indicating the stairs and implying that he had to go straight on , then directed him to the left , upon which he said quietly , if a trifle reproachfully : ‘ You said straight on ’ . |
| 28 | That was probably the most , the in , the most interesting form friendship in there , its fucking good , I went for a job in there , but I could n't I was an apprentice , as I say that , that 's what got me going really was the fact that he had to go down and actually do a design of the and he had to work on the |
| 29 | And then he got so bad , that he had to go in for . |
| 30 | Hanging over him all the time , however , was the knowledge that he had to go back into hospital for further surgery on his spine . |