Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] [vb past] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guy stood up and smiled down at her with such glittering mockery that she wanted to thump him . |
| 2 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 3 | Even Brando became so concerned over Clift 's drinking that he went to see him to try to persuade him to join AA . |
| 4 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 5 | Mr Warburton told the Newton inquiry that he had felt he could not have ‘ sensible or rational ’ discussions with the CIOR over the matter . |
| 6 | She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why . |
| 7 | There , she checked for a pulse , fearing for a moment that she had killed him . |
| 8 | She directed her eyes to his , secretly willing him to see the truth that had nothing to do with her partner or Maria Luisa — the truth that she had loved him then and still did . |
| 9 | She also told the court that he 'd heard he 'd threatened to blow his head off . |
| 10 | There was even speculation that she had helped him write it . |
| 11 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 12 | In 1953 Antenor 's eighteen-year-old daughter , Maria Isabel , met and fell in love with James Goldsmith ( then the son of a hotel manager with little more than a taste for gambling and various romantic exploits to recommend him ) , and informed her father that she wished to marry him . |
| 13 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 14 | So why did she have this totally irrational feeling that she had surprised him ? |
| 15 | Strong-willed and ambitious for her children , she did not retain the affection of her youngest child , Samuel , despite her early devotion to him , and left him in adult life with an obscure and painful sense that she had treated him cruelly . |
| 16 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 17 | The thought that she had failed him so awkwardly added to the weight of her pain . |
| 18 | Was she then secretly distressed by the thought that she had failed him ? |
| 19 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 20 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 21 | She thought he must be disappointed that she was n't going home , and realised in dismay that she 'd wanted him to be glad to know she was staying . |
| 22 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 23 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 24 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 25 | It was the first time that someone had cut him dead , and it was a shock . |
| 26 | Joe demanded , remembering the last time that she 'd dumped him into trouble in a Chinese restaurant , but the chef said something angry and then ignored him and so Joe pushed on past and shouldered his way through into the main part of the premises . |
| 27 | That he very rarely said he loved you rang a warning bell , as did the fact that you appeared to think he spent his time alone if he was n't with you . |
| 28 | The fact that she 'd remembered him gave him pleasure , even though she had evidently misheard what had been said . |
| 29 | And the fact that she had sent him away before he 'd had time to betray her was cold comfort , set against the enormity of that loss . |
| 30 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |