Example sentences of "[pron] that he " in BNC.

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1 His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine .
2 I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said .
3 Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh .
4 You know one of his that he makes ?
5 I really thought I was not only his girlfriend but someone that he really trusted because he knew I was energetic and dynamic and could get things done . ’
6 These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority .
7 Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive .
8 Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain .
9 Someone that he was trying to forget .
10 Say , because I 'm meeting someone that he 'd plan out his
11 Dealings with clients ' money — a solicitor must keep a careful and separate account of any money of yours that he handles and must account to you for deposit interest if he or she holds a significant amount of your money for a significant length of time .
12 It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks .
13 Although not exactly stuck for words , nothing that he has said has yet entered the language .
14 It was not for nothing that he was chosen as Mr Squeaky Clean after the sexual and financial aberrations of his two predecessors .
15 It 's not for nothing that he has earned his reputation as Scotland 's most effective ‘ company doctor ’ .
16 It was not for nothing that he paid house insurance .
17 Nothing that he can do in the way of concentrating on the original sensation and uttering the word ‘ pain ’ will succeed in endowing that word with a meaning .
18 Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all .
19 ‘ It is n't for nothing that he was called the most dangerous man in the galaxy . ’
20 He 's starting to realise that by the time he 's in a position to do anything that he wants , there 'll be nothing that he really wants to do .
21 The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know .
22 Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it .
23 It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble .
24 Since Palm Springs , the commission 's chairman , Mr Setsuo Umezawa , has been telling everyone that he would welcome an increase in the penalties for anti-competitive behaviour .
25 Big Irish Tom had pulled down his shorts and grabbed his willy to show everyone that he was truly a boy and not some soppy little girl who fainted at the sight of turkey innards .
26 In this very pub , one night , and told everyone that he was the Wimbledon poisoner .
27 NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half .
28 About these matters it seems to me that he writes really well , in a manner that might suggest the intent translation of a Latin author anxious to tell the truth .
29 Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
30 Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all .
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