Example sentences of "[adj] [that] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers .
2 She approved the beautiful careful clothes of the " thirties that he wore with such distinction : the swinging tweed jacket , the striped shirt with its careful collar and gold safety-pin , the blue bird's-eye tie , all became him immensely .
3 Thome de Gamond realised the importance of preliminary geological investigations and this enthusiasm was such that he dived without any form of equipment to depths of 100 feet to survey the Channel bed .
4 The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship .
5 Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs .
6 Perhaps Lord Ashley-Cooper was so horrified that he moved to another property , for there is evidence that the Manor reverted to being a tenanted farmhouse and remained thus until it was sold by the Shaftesburys in 1912 to Colonel Canning .
7 ‘ Which is why it 's so super that he agreed to this interview , ’ she quickly covered her slip .
8 Perhaps it was not surprising that he complained of physical debility .
9 For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process .
10 R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ .
11 He wanted to sleep , and the prospect of a bed , even one which he would be required to occupy without companionship , was so attractive that he missed at first the signs that all was not well .
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