Example sentences of "he now [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now regretted that he had declined an invitation from Cromwell to be his chaplain two years previously . |
| 2 | He now discovered that he had been wounded in the elbow , and was taken to hospital where a piece of bullet casing was removed . |
| 3 | He now asserts that it was this God-man Jesus Christ who came into our world , was baptized and died . |
| 4 | He now appreciates that the combination of a physically abused child 's abnormally low weight , under-stimulation and the general lack of competent parenting are the indicia of predictive child abuse . |
| 5 | He now realised that he needed to redefine his criteria for book selection to include material of broader interest than merely that which would fit in with his teaching : You buy your library books with a different set of criteria than the sort you use when you are trying to choose a textbook , and I had to restrain myself and think : " Well , I would n't like this , but maybe there is somebody who would . |
| 6 | He now believed that reference to individual cruelty cases hindered the argument of the cause . |
| 7 | He now believed that id only the Shah apologized , then the British would restore him . |
| 8 | Where he had formerly regarded British devaluation or a retreat from East of Suez as totally contrary to American interests , he now believed that the damage to those interests would be tolerable if the British — by their own choice — embarked upon a long-term and systematic attempt to put their economy to rights . |
| 9 | Alexander 's disappointment was indescribable ; he now thought that he would never again be able to have more than temporary relief . |
| 10 | He now thought that speciation could take place across a continuous territory if the conditions at the extremes of a species ' range were different enough to promote distinct ecological specializations . |
| 11 | He now thought that the Shah should keep his distance from Washington . |
| 12 | On the one hand , although he now thought that the Commonwealth was " little more than a figure of speech " , he acknowledged America 's continuing interest in a British presence in the Indian Ocean . |
| 13 | He now hopes that the housing guidelines will help others grow up too . |
| 14 | No doubt can exist of his Anglophilia , yet he now says that when he heard McQueen tell the story of the ‘ 45 , ‘ I could not refrain from tears , ’ and qualifies his response by discussing a set of feelings not a million miles from sentimentality ; ‘ The very Highland names , or the sound of a bagpipe , will stir my blood , and fill me with a mixture of melancholy and respect for courage ; with pity for an unfortunate and superstitious regard for antiquity , and thoughtless inclination for war ; in short , with a crowd of sensations with which sober rationality has nothing to do . ’ |
| 15 | He now says that he does love his girlfriend , he does want to make that relationship work , and he 's very hopeful of making a reconciliation . |
| 16 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 17 | In view of his earlier encouraging remarks , will he now confirm that he intends to vote in favour of the private Member 's Bill on Friday ? |
| 18 | Will he now confirm that one side effect of the appalling poll tax is that more than a million citizens of this country have not registered to vote ? |
| 19 | He now feels that he will never be liked or respected by anyone in this school again . |
| 20 | He now insisted that Macedonia should adopt a completely different name . |
| 21 | In his resignation letter , Sir Geoffrey noted the growing difference which had emerged between himself and the Prime Minister on the increasingly important issue of Britain 's role in Europe , and especially on monetary policy , and stated that he now felt that he could no longer serve with honour as a member of her government . |
| 22 | Its leader , Holger Nielsen , says he now thinks that a chance to influence Europe 's future is better than dependence on the EC without influence . |
| 23 | Having thought he was hungry , he now realized that actually he needed anything rather than the overflowing plate of cholesterol the canteen at New Scotland Yard had provided with such admirable promptness . |
| 24 | He now realized that specialization for a particular way of life was an advantage even in a stable environment , because it allowed a species to escape from the pressure of rivals seeking to exploit the same resource . |
| 25 | He now knew that the old Slann gates had collapsed , sending surges of transmuting energy through the remnants of their old network of gates . |
| 26 | Sir John ignored her , dressing hastily ; he now knew that Vechey had been murdered . |
| 27 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 28 | He still stressed the desirability of banning the fascists but he now stated that anti-semitism had added a new dimension to the problem since 1934 . |
| 29 | He now claims that BT Customer Systems is the third largest systems integrator in the UK behind Electronic Data Corp 's EDS-Scicon Ltd and ICL Plc , specialising in nine vertical markets : manufacturing ; retail ; transportation ; PTTs ; civil government ; defence ; utilities ; retail finance and wholesale finance . |
| 30 | He now proposed that the fundamental gut decision of whether the paper should be tabloid or broadsheet be tested by market research , until he was finally talked out of it by another newly recruited professional — Clive Thornton , lately of Mirror Group Newspapers . |