Example sentences of "that he [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 2 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |
| 3 | His name implies that he came originally from Upper or Lower Brailes ( Warwickshire ) , near Shipston-on-Stour . |
| 4 | I ca n't even be certain that he went through at four o'clock . |
| 5 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that good news and for the justifiable concern that he expressed earlier about late payment of debt . |
| 6 | It says much for Ackerley — and Parker — that he emerges out of much camp narcissism as a figure of genuine humility . |
| 7 | Manuscript sources state that he was an Augustinian canon at Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire and some also state that he died there on 23 or 24 March , 1395 – 96 . |
| 8 | I mean , ca n't they prove that he died before half-past two in the morning ? ’ |
| 9 | The significance of Simmel 's work is that he breaks away from one of the most predominant tendencies in the grounding of Hegel in social analysis : that is , the suggestion that we can separate off the positive side of sublation from the negative side of externalization as rupture . |
| 10 | His eyes were open , but his face was such a fearful mask of blood , foam , vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon-creature than a rabbit . |
| 11 | It seems to me highly likely that the killer had locked himself in and that he got away during that fifteen minutes . ’ |
| 12 | He said that he got back by one , but the old baker claims that it was after two when he saw the van in Prospect Terrace . |
| 13 | You 'll probably find the walls washed clean , but there may be some evidence that he got out through one of the lavatory windows . |
| 14 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 15 | Then , in the late summer of 1931 , he writes that he passed definitely from this position of ‘ rational meism , into a fall acceptance of the Christian dispensation . |
| 16 | What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes not from southern China but from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand . |
| 17 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |
| 18 | The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government . |
| 19 | ‘ In those days it was a pound made , a pound spent , ’ says Philip , whose proud boast is that he started off without any outside financial backing . |
| 20 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 21 | But it is impossible to accept that he acted alone in such an amateurish manner . |
| 22 | The inventory of the museum 's contents that he drew up with such meticulous care , accompanying his sections for each room with an admirable sketch showing the location of each item , remained in use and he catalogued the museum 's large collection of drawings by Robert Adam [ q.v . ] . |