Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moran felt so outside their circle of concentration that he had to resort to tiptoeing into the room in an exaggerated parody of someone trying to enter unheard but his only audience was the boy , and that not often , and laughter only lifted the girls ' heads from their books for a forgotten moment . |
| 2 | He felt he had scarcely fallen asleep , he was dreaming of a black river , with no banks , yet there was something there , a source of light that he wanted to reach , which he could not reach against the cold drive of the current … |
| 3 | Swod allowed himself a quarter smile at her recognition but his body was so unused to this display of emotion that he began to cough . |
| 4 | He ca n't find anybody , , sort of girl that he wants to marry . |
| 5 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 6 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 7 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 8 | There were lots of little gems of advice that he wanted to offer his daughter , but Ian could only look blankly at her as he steeled himself to give her away . |
| 9 | He was so out of breath that he had to swallow a couple of words to get air . |
| 10 | The man was not wanting to be interviewed , but such is the power of television that he had to agree . |
| 11 | As a man whose sensibilities would be troubled by these liaisons with ‘ beastliness ’ , a basically tender-hearted man , it was perhaps in compensation for his acts of relief that he tried to befriend and help women in trouble , as we shall see . |
| 12 | Such was this sailor 's quality of draughtsmanship that he had to develop a technique of etching and aquatinting to multiply the number of views required to satisfy the demand . |
| 13 | ‘ He has confirmed for business that he wants to promote growth . |
| 14 | She marked with satisfaction that he appeared to brood on that . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 16 | He made no attempt to present her to the other man , however , apparently so deep in thought that he seemed to have forgotten her very existence . |
| 17 | " There 's no such thing as a work-line , " I said , irritable through misery that he wanted to go . |
| 18 | Alf was able to play on either flank of our defence and indeed , on occasions early in his career , in various positions further forward , but it was at left-back that he settled to give of his best from 1958 to 1961 . |
| 19 | He had been hurt so much by life that he had to laugh at it and there was not a trace of bitterness in him . |
| 20 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |