Example sentences of "he [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 2 | But I urge him to accept that a single currency , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) made clear the other day , means a massive transfer of political and economic power to the centre . |
| 3 | An example is provided by one Parkinson , a Victorian clean-up campaigner , whose moral objection to " public dancing " led him to allege that a ballet at the Royal Aquarium had involved a Japanese female catching a butterfly " in the most indecent place you could possibly imagine . " |
| 4 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 5 | ‘ A year later Hugh Butterworth , chief executive of Clark Whitehill , wrote to him saying that a copy of Mr Young 's will , which included names of most of the investors , had been sent to the Revenue without Clark Whitehill 's permission . ’ |
| 6 | It is simple enough for him to show that a boxing match takes place within a general totality of ‘ boxing ’ , which is itself only ever present in any individual incarnation , for as a game each match is both an individual bout and something conducted according to general rules and a specific social tradition . |
| 7 | Senna said he realised that a good start was vital . |
| 8 | He presumed that a plane , out of control had crashed through the fragile frame of wood and canvas . |
| 9 | This is well illustrated by a famous decree made by Barbarossa , in which he ruled that a fire raiser who had taken refuge in a castle must be delivered to justice by those who had sheltered him , but not if he were the lord of the castle-owner , or his vassal , or his kinsman . |
| 10 | I told him about my Knights — without revealing their identities — and he agreed that a lot can be achieved with the mind , that attitude is everything , and that life 's ‘ hard knocks ’ shape your character . |
| 11 | He agreed that a mother 's censorship would be very limiting , and , after consulting Isobel , who was enchanted with the idea , he said that the furniture could be brought in . |
| 12 | In a letter to Richard Bentley , a leading philosopher of the time , he agreed that a finite collection of stars could not remain motionless ; they would all fall together to some central point . |
| 13 | Indeed he agreed that a great deal of hypocrisy had been involved in what Macaulay had called one of the ‘ fits of morality ’ to which the British nation was periodically subject . |
| 14 | He agreed that a regrettable lack of foresight was at the root of it , but he felt that there were extenuating circumstances , and he seemed resolved to do something about it , in so far as he could . |
| 15 | on er , on er , oh he sold that a long time ago , he 's built a bungalow now they live |
| 16 | In a lecture in 1983 he argued that a civil servant who could answer ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ should retire and become a party politician . |
| 17 | He argued that a period of continued budgetary growth is likely to build expectations that the pattern of growth will continue . |
| 18 | His extreme Little-Englandism , however , was linked to World Socialism , and he argued that a truly Socialist independent England would lead the way to a truly Socialist world , independent alike of capitalism and Celtic individualism . |
| 19 | He argued that a fundamental conflict was taking place during the period of social modernisation . |
| 20 | He also maintained his interest in collective consumption in so far as he argued that a successful urban social movement must articulate a demand for that kind of state-provided facility . |
| 21 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 22 | In 1783 ‘ returning thanks to those gentlemen who have been pleased to employ him with surveying , drawing etc. ’ he announced that a school would be opened at the corner of Tassel Street , near Ridgefield , for the instruction of young gentlemen , in the arts of drawing and painting . |
| 23 | He announced that a security expert is to be sent to the Hermitage to collaborate on improved security . |
| 24 | Reminded his audience of the existing theoretical provision in the 1977 USSR Constitution for a union republic to secede , he announced that a draft law was currently in preparation on a " mechanism for how a republic could leave the Soviet Union , " including " the time-frame for leaving , defence , communications , and a whole series of questions " . |
| 25 | The Moslem President of Bosnia-Hercevgovina , Alija Izetbegovic , protested at the holding of the meeting which he saw as unrepresentative and as a move to split Moslems in the republic , and on Aug. 16 he announced that a referendum would be held on the future of Bosnia-Hercegovina at a date to be determined by Bosnia 's parliament . |
| 26 | On Nov. 25-26 Craxi convened the 500-member national assembly of the party ( still generally referred to as the Socialist Party — PSI ) , at which he announced that a full congress would take place in April 1993 . |
| 27 | Two weeks later , he announced that a referendum would be held to change the method of electing the President of the Republic , by replacing the electoral college with popular election . |
| 28 | He asked that a deputy be appointed for his teaching duties while he himself left to pursue an ecclesiastical career in the newly created Diocese of Chester . |
| 29 | He admitted that a further increase could be necessary . |
| 30 | Neville Chamberlain , often regarded as the architect of the National Government , confessed , in July 1931 , ‘ I myself hate the idea and hope it wo n't come to pass ’ ; nevertheless , he admitted that a National Government might come about as a result of the financial crisis . |