Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 2 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 3 | He let someone into that church , a thief , another derelict , a psychopath , and that person killed him . |
| 4 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 5 | I am sorry , but the Prime Minister — I am sure without any intention — is not right about the way that he expressed himself on that point . |
| 6 | he took me round that corner for three times today . |
| 7 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |
| 9 | The thigh-length silk robe he wore , his bare legs and still wet hair told her he had showered , and that very likely he wore nothing beneath that covering but his skin . |
| 10 | He rarely seizes the imagination by exhibiting the higher excellencies , nor does he captivate us by that originality which attends the Painter who thinks for himself . |
| 11 | Will he dissociate himself from that comment and will he take action today to see that the hon. Gentleman concerned is ’ liberated ’ from his ministerial duties ? |
| 12 | ‘ He did everything for that dog and thought the world of him . |
| 13 | By drawing a rectangle round ‘ it 's a chronicle ’ Dostoevsky suggests a framed narrative for The Possessed like the story found by the frame narrator among a deceased ex-convict 's effects in The House of the Dead ; and by declaring ‘ I am a character ’ ( kharakter : a person , not a literary personazh ) he puts himself inside that frame . |
| 14 | I have no quarrel with that , provided he sets them in that order . |