Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We gather that he comes from the university where they are now playing the concert . |
| 32 | We saw that he prayed in the verse at the end of last Sunday 's passage ; he prays in verse 33 as well . |
| 33 | If they confirm that he left at one-thirty , then that does n't give him much time to have entered Randall Lodge and killed Wetherby ; he was practically at Ollerton by two a.m. , driving slowly despite being in his Daimler . |
| 34 | Goff recollects him saying that he felt in danger of being left behind because whilst exciting things were happening in art he was not being allowed to develop . |
| 35 | Much safer for him to say that he approves of better education and better health-care for all . |
| 36 | He also sent his brother a sketch of the little church at Turnham Green — together with a sketch of another church at Petersham — and he records that he returned to Turnham Green on a number of occasions subsequently . |
| 37 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 38 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 39 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 40 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 41 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 42 | He says that he seemed like a nice chap . |
| 43 | He says that he worked at Emma 's request to produce a record of the deeds which touched upon the honour of her and hers , and the oldest surviving manuscript , which is very close to the author 's original , may be the copy she received : it contains a miniature which shows an ecclesiastic presenting a book to a woman while two figures , presumably her sons Harthacnut and Edward , look on . |
| 44 | Sharpe had no watch , but he estimated that he stayed at the edge of the wood for two hours during which time he counted twenty-two guns and forty-eight supply wagons . |
| 45 | . It seemed that he acted as a receiver of stolen goods … |
| 46 | He believed that he came from God , revealed God , spoke for God , acted for God , was a channel for God 's grace and salvation . |
| 47 | A further gloss on this quieter side of his character appears during Johnson 's own reflection in ( rather than upon ) Montrose — where he comments that he has by now had an opportunity to compare Scotland 's beggars with others he has seen . |
| 48 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 49 | So badly was he affected that he had to be taught to speak again . |
| 50 | It appears that he appointed as his prime minister , Mr. Omer Arteh Qalib . |
| 51 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 52 | It appears that he lives in Wimbledon . ’ |
| 53 | Four turns to the left on each lap of the compound , and he fancied that he knew at which moment he must drop his shoulder , cut his stride and turn . |
| 54 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 55 | It seems that he believes in destiny , is loath to prevent fate from running its inevitable course , in the last few pages of the play . |
| 56 | Now he confessed that he had in fact installed her . |
| 57 | In the course of explaining his various duties to Virginia Woolf he confessed that he seemed to be turning into an " Old Buffer " and wondered if he might not also be guilty of humbug . |
| 58 | He finds that he looks at the beggar intensely , as if he would like to know his life story , and smiles quite naturally . |
| 59 | He knew that he looked like an ox , but that counted for nothing ; an ox could drop in its tracks just as easily as anything else . |
| 60 | George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind . |