Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] that [pron] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 2 | When words ran as thin on him as this , he sometimes managed to suppose that it meant he was unconsciously saving them to write with . |
| 3 | From an early age , Sara had sensed that she irritated him , by her presence , by the fact that she was there to remind him of his wife 's earlier marriage . |
| 4 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 5 | He showed us the research he had begun in Pembrokeshire , and we were so amazed at what he had discovered that we encouraged him to continue all over Wales . |
| 6 | He had been seen in Wales by a DJ who had suggested that he look him up , should he ever come to the big city . |