Example sentences of "[that] he [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In a statement on Feb. 14 Honecker admitted his " political responsibility " for the " falsification of the election return of May 7 , 1989 " and on Feb. 20 Krenz conceded that he also shared political responsibility in his position as chair of the central electoral commission .
2 It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy .
3 If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him .
4 To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality .
5 On the other hand , it was obvious from the shadows like sooty thumbprints beneath his eyes and the tension around his mouth that he desperately needed some sleep .
6 He was so ample that he completely filled one side of the table , and a heavenly smile suffused his round pink face as he said : ‘ My favourite of all the wines is — rose petal . ’
7 More recently Susan Hekman has interpreted Mannheim 's role as a forerunner of ‘ anti-foundational ’ social science in that he substantially rejects epistemological grounding for sociology .
8 Although the main thing was that he now had clear proof that she was alive , he could see a lot more work ahead before he found her , if he ever found her .
9 Franco , previously associated with nationalist ideas at odds with the free-market neo-liberal views of Collor , stated that he now accepted economic liberalization in principle .
10 He used to try and learn other players ' licks from the radio and this process was hampered by the fact that he only had one pass in which to do so .
11 ‘ I 'm not sure whether I should be flattered or otherwise , ’ her host drawled , and she decided on the spot that she hated men with sophisticated wit — was he saying that he took it as a compliment , or not , that he only got one mention at lunchtime ?
12 Now you may argue that he always had equal right provided he did not indulge in anal intercourse and I would agree with you .
13 I know that he recently considered this matter at a meeting with the northern TECs , but will he further consider the plight of some regions where costs are slightly higher than in , say , the south-east ?
14 However , the Tsar broke his promise to share power and stated that he still had overall power .
15 He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled .
16 As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’
17 I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf .
18 Hypnotherapy is examined , and while Alec Bedser is sincere in his assertion that he never needed extra motivation ( and also in his justified bellyache that Hutton never gave him enough credit ) , the need is unquestionably there in many cases , and modern sports-thought seeks to help .
19 Having seen the decline in public services over the past decade , I hope that he never has that opportunity .
20 He said that he really found enormous difficulty in understanding this , he did n't refer to how difficult it was when you have dwind dwindling intellectual powers .
21 Illness meant that he gradually relinquished active control of his firm to his son ; Stanford 's London Atlas of Universal Geography …
22 According to the classic history of modern whaling by two Norwegian historians , Lillie ‘ had been so shocked by what the cruelty to whales involved that he tirelessly championed electric killing , which in his opinion would be more humane ’ .
23 Lord Cumbermound , a lucky gambler , had pointed out that he usually got good weather for his show .
24 He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns .
25 It is possible that the subject retained a single letter in the form of a visual representation of the acoustic stimulus and that he subsequently matched this representation against the visually presented probe stimulus .
26 It can happen that at the time of the sale the seller is not the owner ( and thus is in breach of the condition in section 12 ) but that he subsequently obtains that ownership , e. g. by buying the goods from their owner .
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