Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] that he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourne , who worked as a driver and minder to for Heidari , was said to have admitted after his arrest that he had thrown the liquid into Michelle 's face , but had thought it was ‘ soapy water ’ . |
| 2 | He had been so blinded by his need for her light that he had failed to see how deeply he stood in her shadow , and his work had been frustrated thereby . |
| 3 | ‘ This has got to stop , Lindie , ’ he said , using a caressing shortening of her name that he had never used before , and that sounded instantly right on his lips . |
| 4 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 5 | Although Mr X was a director of the ‘ bank ’ , his defence was that he acted in good faith ; indeed , said the defence , such was his faith in the word of his associates that he had invested , and lost , his own money in the venture , always acting on the advice of his colleagues ' , without ever questioning it . |
| 6 | Folly guessed from the timbre of his voice that he had more in mind than cool discussion . |
| 7 | But Cicero told one of his correspondents that he had been discouraged by his elders and betters from attending such a school : " continebar autem doctissimorum hominum auctoritate " ( Suet . |
| 8 | He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in . |
| 9 | He sat motionless , swathed in a greatcoat despite the day 's oppressive heat , and with his face concealed by the peak of his hat that he had turned fore and aft to shadow his eyes . |
| 10 | Whereupon , the 29 year-old Mrs. Gerring launched into her theory that he had his club open at the address at the same time as his body was facing well left of the target . |
| 11 | Lisa was actually naïve enough , just for a moment , to allow the possibility to creep into her mind that he had kept silent in order to protect her . |
| 12 | Jones had already used a variety of materials , one of which was palladium , and was preparing to obtain the final proof with his detector that he had just spent two years building . |
| 13 | Despite having the worst of yesterday 's weather , Torrance was so sharp with his putter that he had seven birdies and no bogeys . |
| 14 | It combined ill with his taste for fast cars and high life ; in 1936 he was declared bankrupt , and settled with his family that he had better live abroad . |
| 15 | Mel Smith took a sideswipe at Nigel Kennedy with his announcement that he had good news for music lovers — the violinist 's appearance had been cancelled . |
| 16 | He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . " |
| 17 | John Hayward was already assiduously collecting Eliot 's letters and drafts for inclusion in what he called the " Archives " and Virginia Woolf noted in her diary that he had acquired a certain kind of writer 's egotism and made remarks like , " Coleridge and I … " |
| 18 | She knew in her heart that he had told the truth , and it had been herself at fault for so lacking trust in his integrity . |
| 19 | It was only in her imagination that he had puzzled his way through kitchen labyrinths to bring a tray to her bedside . |
| 20 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 21 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
| 22 | Shedlock simply supplied both songs from other sources , explaining in his preface that he had inserted them ‘ in their proper places ’ . |
| 23 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 24 | He hit one of the policemen on the jaw , and claimed in his defence that he had believed , on reasonable grounds , that his son was not guilty of the offence of which he was suspected , and had therefore been wrongfully arrested . |
| 25 | A note in his voice that he had long cultivated indicated that the discussion was at an end . |
| 26 | As a member of the Select Committee , I was extremely concerned when Mr. Rimington , Director General of the Health and Safety Executive , revealed in his evidence that he had not been aware of the restrictions that Lord Cullen felt had been placed upon him in respect of investigating labour relations . |
| 27 | He recently admitted in his autobiography that he had used violence on the rugby field on at least4 |
| 28 | It was the first time in his life that he had slept out of doors ; as a boy , he and Jean-Paul had often pleaded to do this , and it had always been forbidden . |
| 29 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 30 | She 'd been set up and she had thought Fernando was so desperate to have her back in his life that he had manipulated the whole thing . |