Example sentences of "that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 2 | After that he is on his own . |
| 3 | And with that he continued on his way . |
| 4 | ‘ And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel , At even , then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt : And in the morning , then ye shall see the glory of the Lord ; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord : and what are we , that ye murmur against us ? |
| 5 | At that he turned his face round and glared at her . |
| 6 | He was keen for success and learning on his own terms , and to that he now set his face . |
| 7 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 8 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 9 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 10 | The telling of atrocity stories is therefore a highly structured occasion which reveals little about the teller other than that he or she is performing a ritual for a contextually specific purpose . |
| 11 | During his inspection of Nikol'skaia volost' , Yakovlev prided himself on his objectivity in criticizing local party activities , given that he was a highly orthodox representative of the central apparatus with a broad knowledge of all-Russian affairs . |
| 12 | Someone laughs , but I can see from Peter 's face that he ai n't making a joke . |
| 13 | After that he had worried about nothing at all . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll be happy with Mike 's place for the moment , ’ said Colin , again rubbing in that he knew a thing or two about some of Sheffield 's leading businesses , and that there is no substitute for that kind of detailed and expert and intimate knowledge . |
| 15 | JIM McDONNELL will return to boxing in the new year with determination similar to that he showed against Azumah Nelson in their world title fight last Sunday . |
| 16 | Who that will be he declined to say other than that he would be preferably an ex-minister , ‘ somebody who has had a reasonably high profile ’ . |
| 17 | He is ready , he says , to consider Syria 's ‘ vital interests ’ in Lebanon , and by that he appears to mean that its army could stay in the Beka'a Valley , provided it is clearly intended for defence against Israeli attack and not for interference in Lebanon 's internal affairs . |
| 18 | After that he learned first to carry with him everywhere his own survival kit of razor , toothpaste and cigarettes against the likelihood of arrest , and then to survive years in prison surrounded by gaolers like characters out of his own plays , who lived by the laws of the regime 's own absurdist , reality-denying logic . |
| 19 | I was involved with the show that was recorded at The Marquee and I think a few months after that he called me and said he was doing an album called ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ and did n't know where to get it mixed . |
| 20 | By that he meant fighting inflation and running a tight fiscal policy . |
| 21 | A film of his most recent novel , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , conveys little more than that he a master of the erotic situation . |
| 22 | After that he cut her dead and let shop doors bang in her face . |
| 23 | Thinking of Lee made him remember Uncle Walter 's medals that he still had in his pocket . |
| 24 | He made sure that he never had much on him . |
| 25 | I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage . |
| 26 | It is not that that he needs , but forgiveness . |
| 27 | ‘ After that he lived for our visits and started repeating ‘ Stroke , stroke , stroke ’ about six times . |
| 28 | On top of that he was pictured in such chic situations as the bar of the Metropolitan Opera House confiding such pearls of worldly wisdom as ‘ A punctilious barman ( or butler ) will always serve you Schweppes Club Soda for highballs ’ . |
| 29 | With that he headed for the garden gate , rubbing his hands on a rag . |
| 30 | In the early days , Paisley was so short of support that he press-ganged people into standing for election . |