Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [that] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 2 | Certainly , so far as we can see , he took no steps to promote the interests of his younger son , apart from not insisting that he take the cross . |
| 3 | It is a measure of Quisling 's obstinacy that he was back as ‘ premier ’ — albeit the puppet of Reichskommissar Josef Terboven — within two years , thus ensuring that he shared the guilt for the occupation war-crimes for which he was duly shot in 1945 . |
| 4 | So it 's equally unsurprising that he receives a steady stream of unsolicited portfolios from eager aspirants searching for their break . |
| 5 | In his Autobiography Nkrumah adroitly sidesteps the question , ack-nowledging that he admired some of the British Communist Party leaders and rather unconvincingly declaring that he had a blank party card among his possessions . |
| 6 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |