Example sentences of "[vb past] that he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lachman , who can now claim the distinction of selling his company twice and buying it back once , quipped that he has personally established a new executive benchmark , transactions per year ( TPY ) , having sold Interactive to SunSoft , Praxis to SunSelect , Interactive to Systemhouse and having bought back Lachman , all in the space of the last twelve months . |
| 2 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 3 | As we approached the river , the Trent , which had a bathing-place in the grounds , he mentioned that he had already had a dip and recommended it . |
| 4 | James mentioned that he had never understood why people went on strike until he became a wage-earner . |
| 5 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 6 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 7 | Mr B. P. reported that he had already lost 3 stone some time before but had stuck at 15 stone and was pleased when he started to lose again . |
| 8 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 9 | As his eyes fell on the crucifix he realized that he 'd always loathed it , and in a small gesture of defiance he lifted it off its hook and set it down on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 10 | He realized that he had just murmured something under his breath . |
| 11 | His critics agreed that he had sure grown with Alberta — just fatter and fatter ! |
| 12 | He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational . |
| 13 | Charles realised that he had previously underestimated the young producer 's sensitivity . |
| 14 | Shevardnadze condemned the incident but Russian army officials accused Georgia of pursuing a deliberate anti-Russian policy after the then Georgian Defence Minister Tengiz Kitovani announced that he had personally ordered the seizure . |
| 15 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 16 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 17 | During the trial seven other women revealed that he had also assaulted them and afterwards a senior detective said that Courtney could have abused 100 women . |
| 18 | Within minutes of Cantona signing for United last week , sources at Leeds revealed that he had twice asked for a move , and stormed out of Elland Road only days before his £1.2 million transfer . |
| 19 | It had taken Carlson some time but he believed that he had finally worked out who was responsible for the ritualistic murders on the planet . |
| 20 | She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night . |
| 21 | ‘ I have never seen Soho on the screen , ’ wrote Ernest Betts in 1928 and then he added that he had never seen Southend , Birmingham , Chelsea , Bloomsbury , or London suburbia either . |
| 22 | Campaign , the advertising industry trade paper , noted that he had happily accepted the deletion of the suffix ‘ man ’ from his title of Chairman of News on Sunday Publishing plc . |
| 23 | ‘ What is it ? ’ asked the eight-year-old , delighted that he had somehow managed to amuse this mature woman of nineteen . |
| 24 | In 1331 he went to Amiens to do liege homage to Philip for Gascony , and it seemed that he had tacitly abandoned his claim . |
| 25 | It seemed that he had undeservedly passed an examination which he had n't even known he was taking . |
| 26 | He stated that he had later spoken to two observers who had been close to the ridge at the time of the accident , and they had apparently noticed that the wind had , momentarily , markedly increased in strength and had appeared to swirl up the hill towards the ridge , coincidental with the time that they saw the aircraft 's wing drop and the aircraft begin to descend . |
| 27 | On May 28 , President Cesár Gaviria Trujillo stated that he had virtually ruled out any possibility of reaching an agreement with the guerrillas , and that the actions of the armed forces were aimed at " wiping them out " . |
| 28 | A FRUD commander interviewed by Le Monde of Nov. 26 in the vicinity of Obock confirmed that he had formerly trained in Ethiopia , as a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Djibouti ( FDLJ — reportedly supported by Mengistu in 1978-81 ) . |
| 29 | Mr Blair also confirmed that he had recently spoken informally to Sinn Fein members in the City Hall about his plans to visit community centres in nationalist areas . |
| 30 | He spent November at Roxburgh , where he issued letters patent in which he recognized Edward III as lord superior of Scotland and declared that he had already done homage to Edward , in return for which Edward had agreed to maintain and protect him and his heirs in the kingdom . |