Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reflection , he rather regrets that they were n't looking out for each other . |
| 2 | We learn that he has not only killed his brother-in-law for opposing the Iranian government but that he unrepentantly believes that ‘ war is the source of love and hope and satisfaction . ’ |
| 3 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 4 | He sarcastically suggests that the story was probably invented ‘ to gratify some friends , who would be glad to hear what use can be made , even in point of life and manners , of a microscope ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , although Hegel does not admit quite what I am now suggesting , he effectively concedes that , given the difference between the sexes , unity between them is impossible . |
| 6 | When Paul denies that God is an idol in a shrine , he effectively denies that God is anywhere else too . |
| 7 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 8 | He apparently believes that the construction ‘ to recommend that someone does something ’ is more correct than ‘ to recommend that someone do something ’ . |
| 9 | He merely notes that the bad news for technological illiterates is that the world is not as they think it is , and if they are interested in the truth his book will fill some gaps . |
| 10 | He merely proposes that : |
| 11 | He merely insists that he , his wife Debbie and their two daughters live in ‘ an unremarkable family home ’ . |
| 12 | Tt and he obviously thinks that , you know , well you 've got to move with it . |
| 13 | He fondly hopes that in the meantime talented managers wo n't be deterred from seeking to take on top jobs because of the greater demands . |
| 14 | He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult . |
| 15 | He only recommends that Public Assistance Committees might be approached , but makes it optional and not obligatory . |
| 16 | He only knows that he needs air and ca n't get it ; a state evinced by his terminal boredom , and by single sovereign descriptive strokes like the fact that his eyes are ‘ a little too blue ’ leaving the reader to imagine a pair of empty summer-sky souls , very bright and staring in pain . |
| 17 | He justly observes that the great tenor sang best of all in his homeland . |
| 18 | In his memoirs he rightly insists that the 1980 election ‘ did not represent a revolution in American values . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , if his discovery is less original than he claimed , he rightly says that his novel analyses the mechanism of involuntary memory in unique detail . |
| 20 | Though he rightly acknowledges that large parts of the country were unaffected by this enclosure movement , his concentration on it gives us a somewhat unbalanced picture . |
| 21 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 22 | At the same time he rightly argues that it is premature to conceive of a cycle of decentralization since that might ‘ presuppose the existence of one single major engine behind the process and suggest the possibility of the recurrence of a similar round of developments in the future ’ ( pp. 35–6 ) . |
| 23 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 24 | Perhaps he just means that they like the sound of my voice ? |
| 25 | If he just wants that he can have it . |
| 26 | He awakens in 1992 and , through a tender friendship with a fatherless young boy and his mother ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) , he finally learns that , while time waits for no man , true love waits forever . |
| 27 | ‘ You may as well accept that he 's going to be around for a while — until he finally accepts that the club 's not for sale . |
| 28 | He nevertheless insists that the " range of plausible " and " scale of valid " interpretations is constrained by the theory to which he adheres , although argument is admissible and he himself has progressed in understanding within the constraints imposed by the theory ( rejecting the PATH schema in favour of the BALANCE one ) . |
| 29 | Thus , whilst he has rebutted the charge that permissiveness represents a simple diminution in control , he nevertheless asserts that within the new control structure there are greater possibilities for the expression of emotion . |
| 30 | He soon realizes that these actresses also have a distinctly French notion of Hollywood . |