Example sentences of "he that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to him that certain activities and institutions flourish in society . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the war itself which convinced him that economic planning by the State was necessary to prevent a return to mass unemployment . |
| 4 | It was apparently Da Ponte who persuaded the emperor to pass the text , telling him that all scenes which might offend good taste or public decency had been excised . |
| 5 | I hated the growing fear my father ( and we ) shared during his illness , that he would mess the bed , and once suggested to him that all families should be required once a month to show each other the contents of their potties . |
| 6 | There was a light about him that all onlookers could see . |
| 7 | There was a glow about him that all men had when they were around Paula . |
| 8 | What was it about him that one look from those obsidian eyes could reduce her to mush ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I also reassured him that European Community funding arrangements are in place , ’ he said . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I remind him that great improvements have been made not only in the amount of assistance that is available to people who are unemployed , but in the amount of assistance to ensure that people receive training so that they can get back into work . |
| 15 | History never had the heart to tell him that great keepers use both hands . |
| 16 | Mr Charkin 's research — difficult because of the very large number of publishers in the business , most unquoted — has shown him that average profits are usually less than 5% of turnover . |
| 17 | Another part of him — not a customs officer — told him that guilty people were dangerous , and he wondered in panic what she would do . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent . |
| 20 | That seems to have been inspired by his father 's excellent library , as well as the spiritual contact with him that such studying brought . |
| 21 | He said the figures excluded urgent treatment cases and Darlington GPs had said to him that such cases could be dealt with in a matter of days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mr Slade 's extensive breeding programme within his flock of 400 pedigree ewes has convinced him that terminal sires do not have to be ‘ big and long ’ . |
| 26 | The Director General , before considering a complaint , may require the complainant to satisfy him that alternative methods of dealing with the matter have been tried and found inadequate . |
| 27 | You ca n't falsely tell him that criminal proceedings will be taken as a result of non-payment . |
| 28 | Louise told him that young children were n't allowed in the front of cars . |
| 29 | His experience of the committee-managed Union convinced him that personal guidance was the safest way to run any enterprise . |
| 30 | Minch had taught him that neither feeling was useful to an eagle unless it was controlled . |