Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning ( it was his last case ) said that the term was not fair and reasonable in the circumstances , although he did say that this was a borderline case . |
| 2 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 3 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 4 | He did say that 30 bids were being reviewed , all from foreign firms or Western-backed joint ventures . |
| 5 | Although he said he would be happy to see Brokerage break even by the end of the 1993 fiscal year , he did add that this would depend on the timing and amount of licence sales made . |
| 6 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 7 | Although Halliday does not commit himself to a functional definition of literary language , he does recognize that different kinds of literary writing may foreground different functions . |
| 8 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 9 | ( In fairness to Rollin he does allow that such rights may be breached , but only for life-or-death reasons . |
| 10 | He does know that two weeks ago , his mother has died of starvation . |