Example sentences of "that he [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emotions towards the skipper must be mixed : his runs are obviously needed , but not so many that he presents an unanswerable case for a Test recall . |
| 2 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 3 | The fact that he forbade an official biography — as early as 1925 , he had decided that he did not want one — has suggested to many people that such a biography would necessarily be of a scandalous nature . |
| 4 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 5 | Accordingly , we should only interfere with his decision if we are satisfied that he applied an incorrect test , or was deprived of material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion or was plainly wrong . |
| 6 | It was immaterial to her that he was coarse and brutish , that he kept an illegal tavern , that he was invariably drunk , and that he was eventually imprisoned for manslaughter . |
| 7 | As for Prince Charles , having declared that he kept an open mind on the subject of complementary medicine , he gave a dissertation on the recent allegations that he had taken to the occult : ‘ I do not play with a Ouija board . |
| 8 | It was at Oxford , he said later , that he met an older woman who ‘ sorted him out about all that . |
| 9 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |
| 10 | It would be wonderful if Peter Sebastian did come to Venice for the opening of his exhibition , though it had been suggested by the Press that he had an American fiancée , and might be staying permanently in the States . |
| 11 | He said that he had an open mind . |
| 12 | On the issue of a transitional government , De Klerk said that he had an open mind on arrangements to ensure fair government until full democracy was achieved . |
| 13 | Some clearly shared David Stockman 's notoriously low estimate of Reagan 's intellect and were not convinced that he had an adequate understanding of the intricacies of economic policy-making . |
| 14 | In the years that followed , his mother 's friends would often comment that he had an old head on young shoulders . |
| 15 | I found a friend from Fulham Church , a qualified Chemist who had been allowed to keep his shop because of its value to the community , and the fact that he had an invalid wife . |
| 16 | Mungo noticed that he had an angry spot on the side of his nose . |
| 17 | Sparke 's works show that he had an intense curiosity about the economic , political , religious , social , and scientific concerns of the day . |
| 18 | One of the most fabulously rich of the Shahs ministers , Hushand Ansary , has obtained permission to leave on the grounds that he had an urgent appointment with Henry Kissinger . |
| 19 | Instead he hurriedly told his fellow directors that he had an urgent appointment to keep collapsing into the arms of his secretary when he reached his office . |
| 20 | ‘ … I was left in no doubt that he had an incorruptible conscience about art . |
| 21 | This led Charles Knight , Editor of the Penny Magazine , to suggest to Kitto that he prepare an illustrated bible . |
| 22 | It is at times like this , I 'm afraid , that he becomes an English windbag . |
| 23 | Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled . |
| 24 | Each individual must believe that the organisation has desirable , significant objectives , and that he makes an indispensable contribution to the objectives of the organisation . |
| 25 | ( In Thomson 's experiments with electrons , we saw that he used an electric field to accelerate the electrons . |
| 26 | Too little is known about Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi to enable one to decide what is meant by the title , however , and there is no other evidence to indicate either that he held an official post or , if so , that it was anything other than an ad hominem appointment . |
| 27 | ‘ He said that he detected an implied suggestion that he might obtain another credit card from a different company and use it to pay off his card . ’ |
| 28 | One can only suppose that he preferred an effective ruler , however unpleasant , to an ineffective one , however much recommended by his personal qualities . |
| 29 | A medical spokesman explained that he needed an urgent operation to treat glaucoma caused by diabetes . |
| 30 | McDonald , who was booked in yesterday 's 1–0 win over Lithuania here in Vilnius , spent an anxious night worrying that he faced an automatic suspension from next week 's Group Three qualifying match . |