Example sentences of "[that] he [vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some organisations reduce the level of the foreign service premium over the period that the employee spends abroad on the basis that he becomes increasingly accustomed to the life style as time progresses . |
| 2 | And , purely to keep the story progressing , he has to be one of the laziest criminals in screen history , scattering clues with such recklessness that he seems subconsciously determined to be discovered . |
| 3 | Professor Sharp , of the Memorial University of Newfoundland , writes that he has just run across the earwig after having acquired five years ' back numbers of this magazine and to say that the Anglo-Saxons had a word for it , as we are all too well aware from listening to conversations between small children . |
| 4 | I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years . |
| 5 | When asked how he has chosen between the various versions of the same subject by Titian , Laclotte says that he has simply aimed for the best . |
| 6 | We are not claiming either that He has somehow implanted in us a sixth sense that gives us certainty He exists whilst our other five senses provide no such assurance . |
| 7 | Two comparisons are central here , the first being those incongruous occasions , of which the book is full , when characters that he has previously encountered in quite disparate walks of life , happen to meet . |
| 8 | To be summarily told that he has now dropped in the county pecking-order , that he can not expect to graduate to the captaincy , came as a shock . |
| 9 | xiv.4 : Kimon says that he has never toadied to the Thessalians ) . |
| 10 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
| 11 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman could have made the shortest speech that he has ever made in the House . |
| 12 | Can Misha Glenny be so politically naive that he has unwittingly turned into an apologist for aggression ? |