Example sentences of "[verb] [that] he [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted above all to know that he still lay safe and quiet in his nameless grave ; he was heavy and burning at heart with his longing to ask , but he would not . |
| 2 | But also added that he easily became impatient with any intellect inferior to his own . |
| 3 | At breakfast the next morning Van Cheele realized that he still felt uncomfortable about yesterday 's adventure . |
| 4 | ‘ There 'll be a bit off for luck ? ’ he asked , proving that he still retained some of the guile he had picked up as a practising country lawyer . |
| 5 | After the trial police revealed that he probably abused 100 other women . |
| 6 | Having seen the decline in public services over the past decade , I hope that he never has that opportunity . |
| 7 | It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy . |
| 8 | Franco , previously associated with nationalist ideas at odds with the free-market neo-liberal views of Collor , stated that he now accepted economic liberalization in principle . |
| 9 | However , the Tsar broke his promise to share power and stated that he still had overall power . |
| 10 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
| 11 | The minting of his own coins by Beonna could suggest that he too broke free for a time from Aethelbald 's domination . |
| 12 | I know that he recently considered this matter at a meeting with the northern TECs , but will he further consider the plight of some regions where costs are slightly higher than in , say , the south-east ? |
| 13 | It almost goes without saying that he also had fine , Beatle-cropped brown hair and affected a close-clipped beard with the dense consistency of fur . |
| 14 | This is often a time-consuming but indispensable part of the field man 's job since the work demands that he both preserve existing relationships with key people in farms and factories in his district and seek out and cultivate new contacts . |
| 15 | David Elsworth seemed quite satisfied with the performance of Barnbrook Again , observing that he still had 17 days before the big race . |
| 16 | Illness meant that he gradually relinquished active control of his firm to his son ; Stanford 's London Atlas of Universal Geography … |
| 17 | This provides something closer to historical Marxism , although it does mean that he quickly becomes involved in assumptions about rationality and intentionality , and has to propose a ‘ principle of Humanity ’ , that is a common human nature , to hold them all together . |
| 18 | He was also a vegetarian , although the story goes that Chapman persuaded him to eat steaks after hearing that he sometimes felt faint when heading a ball . |
| 19 | In any difficult situation we can know that when we have done what 's in our power to do , we can place our problem into God 's hand and into God 's care , knowing that he perhaps has other hands to take up our work that we have done all we can do with . |
| 20 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
| 21 | He knew that he still had certain assets on which he could raise cash . |
| 22 | According to the classic history of modern whaling by two Norwegian historians , Lillie ‘ had been so shocked by what the cruelty to whales involved that he tirelessly championed electric killing , which in his opinion would be more humane ’ . |
| 23 | He insisted that he alone set Free French policy on all major issues . |
| 24 | As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’ |
| 25 | He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns . |
| 26 | He said that he really found enormous difficulty in understanding this , he did n't refer to how difficult it was when you have dwind dwindling intellectual powers . |
| 27 | Nevertheless Dr Neil encouraged Rose to help ; he said that he really needed two pairs of hands now that Effie was fully dilated . |
| 28 | Concerning videotapes , the Head of Department said that he only held two which were shared with another department ( i.e. were constantly reused ) and that he could not afford to build up a library of them . |
| 29 | In a statement on Feb. 14 Honecker admitted his " political responsibility " for the " falsification of the election return of May 7 , 1989 " and on Feb. 20 Krenz conceded that he also shared political responsibility in his position as chair of the central electoral commission . |
| 30 | Now you may argue that he always had equal right provided he did not indulge in anal intercourse and I would agree with you . |