Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [vb past] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 2 | However , so keen was Germi to get Dustin that he had made him co-producer , and allowed him equal say as to how the role was to be played . |
| 3 | Guy stood up and smiled down at her with such glittering mockery that she wanted to thump him . |
| 4 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 5 | John Morgan , 64 , who was her driver in 1988 when the young township activist was killed , told the Johannesburg Sunday Times that she had ordered him to remove the body from her Soweto home and ‘ dump the dog ’ . |
| 6 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 7 | Even Brando became so concerned over Clift 's drinking that he went to see him to try to persuade him to join AA . |
| 8 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 9 | Mr Warburton told the Newton inquiry that he had felt he could not have ‘ sensible or rational ’ discussions with the CIOR over the matter . |
| 10 | She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why . |
| 11 | There , she checked for a pulse , fearing for a moment that she had killed him . |
| 12 | She directed her eyes to his , secretly willing him to see the truth that had nothing to do with her partner or Maria Luisa — the truth that she had loved him then and still did . |
| 13 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 14 | She also told the court that he 'd heard he 'd threatened to blow his head off . |
| 15 | There was even speculation that she had helped him write it . |
| 16 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 17 | O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted . |
| 18 | In 1953 Antenor 's eighteen-year-old daughter , Maria Isabel , met and fell in love with James Goldsmith ( then the son of a hotel manager with little more than a taste for gambling and various romantic exploits to recommend him ) , and informed her father that she wished to marry him . |
| 19 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 20 | So why did she have this totally irrational feeling that she had surprised him ? |
| 21 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 22 | Strong-willed and ambitious for her children , she did not retain the affection of her youngest child , Samuel , despite her early devotion to him , and left him in adult life with an obscure and painful sense that she had treated him cruelly . |
| 23 | FRIENDS of actress Mia Farrow , above , yesterday hit back at claims by her ex-lover Woody Allen that she threatened to kill him . |
| 24 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 25 | The thought that she had failed him so awkwardly added to the weight of her pain . |
| 26 | Was she then secretly distressed by the thought that she had failed him ? |
| 27 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 28 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 29 | Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil . |
| 30 | She thought he must be disappointed that she was n't going home , and realised in dismay that she 'd wanted him to be glad to know she was staying . |