Example sentences of "he that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Webb-Bowen had about him that healthy gloss which derives from subscriptions paid annually by Coutt 's banker 's order to either BUPA or PPP . |
| 2 | It was the war itself which convinced him that economic planning by the State was necessary to prevent a return to mass unemployment . |
| 3 | What was it about him that one look from those obsidian eyes could reduce her to mush ? |
| 4 | Sometimes the terrible debt he owed her was a churning sickness in his stomach that often rushed into his throat to warn him that one day it might choke him to death . |
| 5 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 6 | When she resumed her story her voice was different , flat and uninflected , as she told him that one day a journalist and a photographer had come to Chastlecombe to do a feature on the shopping arcade for the colour magazine of one of the Sunday papers . |
| 7 | I also reassured him that European Community funding arrangements are in place , ’ he said . |
| 8 | But Chinese philosophy ( well , the odd book about it , anyway ) tells him that great opportunity and great danger are two sides of the same coin . |
| 9 | I have told him that COED CYMRU can have eight pages , provided he can raise a minimum of £1,000 to cover its production costs . |
| 10 | That seems to have been inspired by his father 's excellent library , as well as the spiritual contact with him that such studying brought . |
| 11 | He 'd gone on saying it until people complained and the landlord was forced to tell him that such talk amounted to the spreading of gloom and despondency ; it was almost as bad as careless talk and would land him in the Bridewell if the police got to hear . |
| 12 | Actually , he admitted in private that Sir Isidore Salmon had told him that continued support of the British Union of Fascists would mean the withdrawal of all Lyons 's advertisements from the Daily Mail , as well as any other financial inconveniences which could be arranged . |
| 13 | His experience of the committee-managed Union convinced him that personal guidance was the safest way to run any enterprise . |
| 14 | Minch had taught him that neither feeling was useful to an eagle unless it was controlled . |
| 15 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 16 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 17 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 18 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 19 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 20 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |
| 21 | The two-way division agreed at Aachen in March 842 is best seen as a way of putting pressure on Lothar , convincing him that this time he had no alternative to opening negotiations in earnest . |
| 22 | I dashed across to the DC 's house to tell him that this train with several hundred refugees was standing in the station , and some shelter must be found for them . |
| 23 | Legally I still owe him that wretched money — whether or not I produce the sorts of designs he wants . ’ |
| 24 | You remember , you rushed out on Christmas Eve and got him that electric blanket … |
| 25 | ‘ At the moment , it seems impossible to convince him that any kind of action at all is necessary . ’ |
| 26 | ( Ms Obholzer blocked that exit by telling him that domestic gas in Vienna was now non-lethal . ) |
| 27 | I can also tell him that urban aid of £9.7 million has been made available over the years for homelessness projects in Scotland . |
| 28 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 29 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 30 | Also on Feb. 24 Qian had an unscheduled meeting with Takeshita when he told him that full normalization of Sino-Japanese relations could hinge on Japan 's " correct understanding of history " . |