Example sentences of "to he that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hated the growing fear my father ( and we ) shared during his illness , that he would mess the bed , and once suggested to him that all families should be required once a month to show each other the contents of their potties . |
| 2 | It is important to him that certain activities and institutions flourish in society . |
| 3 | He said the figures excluded urgent treatment cases and Darlington GPs had said to him that such cases could be dealt with in a matter of days . |
| 4 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 5 | A British Rail quality manager and former Sunderland nut , he changed allegiance in 1980 when it seemed to him that some Roker players were becoming too mercenary . |
| 6 | He remembered his wife mentioning to him that some immigrants had moved into the street , and , because he knew that neither Donna nor Mrs Stych would bother to call on immigrants , he felt vaguely sorry for the newcomers ' isolation . |
| 7 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 8 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |