Example sentences of "[verb] [that] he [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do know that he became very depressed when the times were bad and he had the mortgage payments to meet . |
| 2 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 3 | I shall be taken to implicate that he has only fourteen and no more because had he had twenty , then by the maxim of Quantity ( " say as much as is required " ) I should have said so . |
| 4 | She had also claimed that he took long liquid lunches and had even been thrown out of a wine bar for fondling another girl . |
| 5 | Also I express surprise at the Labour leader 's volte face a short while ago in the press he reported that he had more important matters to think about , or discuss insofar as fox fox hunting was concerned or words to that effect . |
| 6 | Her face reflecting her disgust , and horror as she stared at the other woman , Ellie turned to glance at Feargal to see how he might be taking this insulting piece of arrant mischief-making , and was astonished to see that he looked not angry , but almost sad . |
| 7 | Tests revealed that he had abnormally high levels of insulin in his blood , which could only have been injected . |
| 8 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher , who quoted the names of nine search firms he had employed ( including two major international consultancies , Heidrick and Struggles and Norman Broadbent ) , argued that he used both large and small firms because of the variety of assignments he handled . |
| 9 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 10 | ‘ It assumes that he went round armed with a little pistol , or that he knew where to lay hands on one in the house . ’ |
| 11 | Gildas had said that he felt too tired to be continually renewing his amazement , he had other troubles . |
| 12 | It has been said that he gave too much of himself in his idealistic way , and that the ‘ political football ’ aspects of the CBC in eastern Canada , where he was finally transferred , caused a breakdown in health and his early retirement . |
| 13 | At this point I noticed that he had only one nostril . |
| 14 | The defendant must show that he sent out adequate instructions . |
| 15 | But Williams would n't let Halliwell see that he thought so little of him . |
| 16 | Upon retirement he declared that he had only one regret : his failure to divert the tram track round the sea-side of the Metropole Hotel ! |
| 17 | It also claimed that he had nearly 20 meetings with North between 1985 and 1987 . |
| 18 | Most traders offered extensive lines of credit , without interest , to their friends and kinsmen — a wealthy Kufran , for example , reckoned that he had about 30,000 dinars on loan to his friends at any one time — apart from commercial credit . |
| 19 | Edgar Gillet , who at that period was an interesting painter , recalls that he lost practically all of his friends to other , and easier , artistic disciplines . |
| 20 | ‘ I had previously studied Charles 's chart and had noted that he has very unrealistic expectations of women . |
| 21 | Fabia loved that he seemed as befuddle-headed as she . |
| 22 | In order to make this contract you now have to hope that he had precisely 3 Clubs , leaving him with precisely 3 Diamonds and that these Diamonds include the Queen . |
| 23 | Aunt Emily and Michael Swinton spoke to her together and then laughed and she saw that he looked quite different , much younger , that his hair and beard had been trimmed , that his expression was full of vitality . |
| 24 | Rick felt that he knew very little about practical mathematics apart from ‘ making a scale drawing of the minibus and taking kids out to measure the rugby pitch ’ and even less about investigations and problem-solving . |
| 25 | Some teachers identified an increase in paperwork and one felt that he spent too much time trying to raise the money for new projects from sources outside school before the head took the request for funding seriously . |
| 26 | He said , knowing that he sounded as petulant as an obstinate child : |
| 27 | Nicholson thought that he looked vaguely pleased to see him ; a small smile hovered on his dry lips . |
| 28 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 29 | Dalgliesh remembered that he had always drunk beer ; now he accepted whisky but said he could do with coffee first . |
| 30 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |