Example sentences of "he [verb] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him think that Selden died from a fall . |
| 2 | Gedge 's infatuation with Rigby was so powerful that it led him to agree that Duane , a guitarist , could join the group . |
| 3 | It was better not to let him know that Chris woke regularly two or three times every night . |
| 4 | After enjoying so many years of unquestioning servility from David , it infuriated him to know that Beth did not feel threatened by him . |
| 5 | It would never do for him to know that Mr Massingham had brought the file to her home personally . |
| 6 | Its contents and tone led him to suspect that Diana was on the verge of quitting The Firm . |
| 7 | I tried to make him understand that Brian had n't done anything wrong . |
| 8 | Eventually he met a boy almost distressed with diffidence who told him enough for him to conclude that Lorton was much too far away for comfort . |
| 9 | ‘ I challenge him to deny that John Major promised , not only no tax increases , but that there would be tax cuts year on year . |
| 10 | Mr Rushdie also met federal parliamentarians in Ottawa , and although he was not granted time with the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , he said that his reception by the External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall encouraged him to believe that Canada was firmly behind the campaign to get the death sentence lifted . |
| 11 | Whereas rumour led him to believe that Robert Beaumont was a cultivated man , likely to appreciate music . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt , therefore , that whether they are correct or not , Ibn Hajar and the sources which follow him believe that Molla Fenari died in Rajab 834 . |
| 13 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 14 | But , as he revealed later , it did not take long for him to realise that Paris was no more inspirational to him than Barnsley , so he returned to northern England and entered show business as a singer and pianist . |
| 15 | He unexpectedly appended to this a ‘ Post Script containing remarks on the State of Modern Sicily ’ in which his sympathy with contemporary trends in secular rationalist thought led him to argue that Sicily was in need of drastic modernization along liberal and democratic lines . |
| 16 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 17 | I think it was a great relief for him to think that Tony DeFries would deal with things and all he had to do was deal with his artistry . |
| 18 | How reasonable of him to admit that Scotland is , as it always was , a separate and distinct nation . |
| 19 | For Allen , however , the game , his fifth international appearance , provided a chance for him to prove that Wales have a viable attacking alternative to Rush and Hughes , both missing through suspension . |
| 20 | Rostov 's left arm ached and he realised that Alexei was trying to exploit the weakness of his healed injury to make an early touch . |
| 21 | Then he realised that Kouklia was in daily touch with Salines , and Salines , unobtrusively , with Nicosia . |
| 22 | He realised that Marion 's reticence was to protect the secret of her love affair with Ronald Travis . |
| 23 | He realised that Maidstone was probably regarded as a local ‘ character ’ , the kind of man who , met once , can be amusing and enjoyable company but thereafter can become a crashing bore . |
| 24 | In the excitement of his new job and other things that were happening he pushed the thought of Chris to the back of his mind until he realised that Maureen looked red-eyed and unhappy . |
| 25 | He says a mutual friend phoned to say he 'd met Mr. Cratchley in the car park that morning and he realised that Mr. Cratchley had booked into our property in France . |
| 26 | Pairs of RIC men were patrolling on each side of the wide thoroughfare and , though to Jacob they were of no more account than any other pedestrians , he realised that Deirdre could not feel so unconcerned . |
| 27 | Then , with horror , he realised that Johnny knew — had discovered the secret he had managed to keep hidden from everyone for years . |
| 28 | Outside the chamber , Corbett found the captain of the guard waiting for him , a little more relaxed now he realised that Corbett was acceptable to the Queen-Dowager . |
| 29 | Feeling in the dark , he checked that Lee had got the belt on tight enough . |
| 30 | He registered that George Wood 's information had been correct , paid his bill and — to the relief of the landlord — went on his way over the pass and not back to Keswick , which would have been more likely for a government man . |