Example sentences of "he [verb] that [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally , he would tell my mother something about events at school , and if he realised that one of us had overheard it , he would say , ‘ You 're deaf ! ’ |
| 2 | He argued that neither of these perspectives had theoretical objects . |
| 3 | But then he realized that many of these bodies were indeed moving , but not very much . |
| 4 | However , as Blake was splashed with water he realized that many of the people had come to help put out the fire . |
| 5 | Does he agree that perhaps the most significant development in regard to foreign policy was the clear and unambiguous agreement to widen the Community to embrace the emergent democracies in eastern Europe , and will he make that one of the key aims of the British presidency under the next Conservative Government ? |
| 6 | He ca n't say for sure , but he thinks that one of the fillings looks like Continental work , using a technique that 's not widely practised in Britain . |
| 7 | Did n't he know that millions of women worked ? |
| 8 | Does he know that thousands of construction workers in Wales are out of work , yet Shelter Cymru tells us that 63,000 families in the Principality have experienced homelessness in the past year ? |
| 9 | When the historian Asa Briggs examined their backgrounds he found that fifty-six of them had been university educated , forty at Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 10 | He found that some of his Pound negatives could only be printed effectively with platinum paper , which has a very long tonal range . |
| 11 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |
| 12 | Among writers alone — and even excluding those discussed in the present volume — he concludes that all of the following were either schizophrenic or suffered from an affective psychosis : Strindberg , Baudelaire , Kant , Swift , Shelley , Johnson , Hölderlin , Donizetti , Conrad , Kafka , Coleridge , Schopenhauer , Barrie , Schiller , Crane , Chatterton , Rousseau , Tasso , Maupassant , Balzac , and Boswell . |
| 13 | The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence . |
| 14 | He reported that all of the formerly rampant vegetation on Krakatoa had now been destroyed , with only a few of the thicker tree-trunks still rising above the thick mantle of ash , and that there were now three major eruption columns carrying clouds of dust and pumice high into the air , escaping from three separate vents . |
| 15 | He adds that most of the performers are cautious about who they bed . |
| 16 | Also there is another letter ( Wordsworth Letters 1812–1820 ) when he mentioned that one of Green 's daughters taught art . |
| 17 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 18 | He says that all to often it 's the same people committing the crimes , theyaalso commit more while on bail . |
| 19 | There was a thing about Rick Holden on Sunday where he says that most of the players just sit around or go to the pub etc after training and on their days off . |
| 20 | He says that most of those years are just a blur but he finds it hard to forget that he was locked in a secure ward for the seriously mentally ill for two weeks . |
| 21 | This is still true when he says that some of the respondents lacked the emotional maturity to respond adequately to poetry . |
| 22 | He says that some of the technology , such as the switch fabric , will be bought in , though the source has yet to be decided . |
| 23 | Will he confirm that contrary to some suspicions expressed in various parts of the media and by some politicians , the major factor in the mind of Her Majesty 's Government when forming their policy towards Hong Kong is protecting the interests of Hong Kong and its people ? |
| 24 | Will he confirm that most of them are tourists , many of whom are travelling north for a last glimpse of a rare species on the point of extinction in Scotland — Scottish Tory Members ? |
| 25 | He recalled that one of his first jobs was helping to prepare Calder Hall power station in 1957 for the opening ceremony performed by the Queen . |
| 26 | He recognised that many of the first and second generation of industrial urbanites were morally and socially disorientated — in a state of anomie or normlessness ( a sort of perpetual culture shock ) . |
| 27 | He noticed that hundreds of mushrooms had sprouted since his last visit , some as large as saucers . |
| 28 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 29 | As he re-entered the bedroom he noticed that some of the drawers lay open and were messed up , and as the truth began to dawn on him he ran to his private money supply hidden in a sock , for his outings to the pub . |
| 30 | He added that 17 of the former detainees were being reintegrated into the organization . |