Example sentences of "he [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were times now , even amidst the hubbub of men , when the numbness reared its head again and made him think that eventually it would take over and he 'd descend into silence , cold unthinking silence . |
| 2 | It would have been small consolation to him to know that later , on 22 August , she wrote : ‘ Odiously impertinent , insulting and boastful as the French have always been , one can not help feeling for them . ’ |
| 3 | I 've got to make him feel that finally I 've been touched by his chivalry and so on and so on … |
| 4 | This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining . |
| 5 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 6 | And his return to civilian life soon made him realize that almost every principle needed to be a little elastic . |
| 7 | Some earlier research in 1972 had led him to believe that very high pressures could be attained , and also that the hydrogen ions behaved as free in the palladium crystal lattice , moving around and probably bumping into one another . |
| 8 | His face shadowed as the thought of Ray Doyle 's punctured body made him realise that perhaps Doyle 's oriental interests were a thing of the past , now . |
| 9 | He reached for her to kiss her again and Sally clung to him hoping that somehow the contact would make everything come right . |
| 10 | He took my advice and I could see him thinking that maybe this was n't the best sort of area for his only daughter . |
| 11 | Yet as we talked and ate , he looked mostly at Werewolf and then at his daughter and occasionally you could see him thinking that maybe he ought to change his Will . |
| 12 | But he plays that well every , cos every time I see him play he plays hell of bloody suit ! |
| 13 | Now , he realised that here , in future years , with that voice , those gestures , stood a star . |
| 14 | As the sun came up and he was able to make out the grassy track along which he had been striding through the night he realised that once again he had missed the verderers , that there were no fresh hoof-marks . |
| 15 | He realised that maybe he really was after all , just a little , the country hick he had tried so hard to avoid being . |
| 16 | On that view why did he stress that both the label-switching and the removal from the shelves had to take place ? |
| 17 | He admits that it may be possible to use reason to a limited extent , but he insists that ultimately the existence of God defies all proof and has to be based on faith which transcends reason .. |
| 18 | He argued that even the procurement of raw materials from abroad should be subject to government control . |
| 19 | He argued that even if wages and prices were flexible , aggregate demand would not necessarily be sufficient to ensure full employment . |
| 20 | He argued that as old institutions failed to meet new expectations , so legitimacy in government would falter and trust in its equity and effectiveness would decline . |
| 21 | He argued that all the higher taxonomic categories can be divided into five subordinate units that fall naturally into a circular pattern . |
| 22 | He argued that once conscious control of production is established at the macro level , the result of this production loses its commodity characteristic . |
| 23 | Parson thought this was ridiculous , but he realized that even days before he would flee , the Shah was unable to acknowledge that power had slid from him like snow from the mountains in spring . |
| 24 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 25 | They were both singing well , not exactly together , but not destroying each other either and , as he listened , he realized that once again it was Therese who was making it work , adapting slightly , but still dominating the sounds as they came over the footlights . |
| 26 | Obviously they were not , so he recommended that once again the ‘ great offensive ’ on the Right Bank be postponed . |
| 27 | The final accolade came in Barnes ' closing speech , when he announced that never in his experience , ‘ and I think rarely if ever in anybody 's experience , has a local group without legal representation appeared and presented their case so consistently over an enormously long inquiry such as this . ’ |
| 28 | While he described any retreat from a world role as a virtual impossibility , he admitted that even with American aid the position abroad would be " all but intractable " . |
| 29 | How could he explain that only by emptying himself into a woman was there any relief ? |
| 30 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |