Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 2 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 3 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 4 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 5 | She looked so stricken at this that he wished he had n't said it . |
| 6 | The only time that he wished he had n't been quite so deeply involved in the skin trade was when the past came to visit . |
| 7 | And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown . |