Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 2 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 3 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 4 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 5 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 6 | Not quite able to turn this down , he insists instead that I telephone him on Saturday morning to confirm . |
| 7 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 8 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 9 | They know that I killed him on purpose because he took my best animal . ’ |
| 10 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 11 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 12 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
| 13 | He sounded so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart . |
| 14 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 15 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 16 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 17 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 18 | The distinction has to be noted ( because traditionally thinking in criminal law seems to regard it as important ) between a request by the patient that treatment be discontinued which is complied with and a request by the patient that someone stabs him to death which is complied with . |
| 19 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 20 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 21 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 22 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 23 | He knew that she thought him to be a stiff and unimaginative person . |
| 24 | Clive Kemp 's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter , a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual , and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles . |
| 25 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 26 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 27 | Now that the lights are on I do n't suspect that she drove him to suicide . |
| 28 | If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ? |
| 29 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 30 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |