Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked him once whether his FI career had really mattered to him that much , he answered characteristically that of course it had , but that he enjoyed racing in any form , and of all the forms of racing he enjoyed winning best : ‘ I win more over here , ’ he said , adding with a characteristic grin , ‘ and it 's easier . ’ |
| 2 | Until now the possibility had n't occurred to Godolphin — he 'd been too preoccupied by the secret that he 'd lived with most of his adult life — but it was an intriguing , and disturbing , thought . |
| 3 | And now that he 'd escaped from that awful prison , come he would , she knew that as certainly as she knew daylight would follow darkness . |
| 4 | He had one photograph , from Shaun 's wedding , and the photograph 's arrival had been the first that he 'd known about any of it . |
| 5 | He smiled for a moment thinking it was a joke ( a slash of the knife at this point ) and then the smile turned to disbelief — ‘ he did n't look disabled ’ — finally he felt embarrassment that he had progressed through such sensational thoughts . |
| 6 | Mr. Burt said in evidence that he had relied upon these representations and that he would not have ‘ employed ’ him — the word he used in evidence — had he known that he was not qualified . |
| 7 | On Feb. 15 the UN mediator , Alvaro De Soto , denied that he had drawn up such a report . |
| 8 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 9 | Anyway , someone pointed out that the face in the mirror was obviously not the face of the woman looking into it , something to do with the angle at which the mirror was held , and what theory they attached to that , whether it had been intended , or a mistake , or even an overpainting at a later date — he did not remember that he had known about that . |
| 10 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 11 | However suspicious he was , he surely realised that he had agreed to this visit ? |
| 12 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 13 | His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little . |
| 14 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 15 | My close friendship with Pearn had made me aware of the work that he had put into that assistance . |
| 16 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 17 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 18 | It was impossible to persuade himself that he had cohabited with this woman — that they had slept together — eaten together — planned their lives together . |
| 19 | In referring once again to employee share ownership schemes , an idea that got him into trouble after the last election , he signalled that he still believed in the ‘ popular socialism ’ that he had advanced in those days as the answer to Thatcher 's ‘ popular capitalism ’ . |
| 20 | He replied that he had tried to get an attorney to break the contract and that he had spoken to this lawyer and that lawyer . |
| 21 | She kept remembering that he had walked in this room , sat in the chairs , eaten at the table . |
| 22 | Two days earlier the Home Secretary had sent a minute to the Prime Minister explaining that he proposed to answer on these lines . |
| 23 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 24 | It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror . |
| 25 | On Jan. 10 Lewandowski told a Sejm committee assessing his candidacy for the post of Minister of Ownership Transformations that the performance of the share offer indicated that a different approach to privatization was needed , and he said that he favoured distributing to all Polish citizens free vouchers to be exchanged for shares . |
| 26 | Retired university lecturer Ray Morgan was not at home when we called to see him , but it 's understood that he decided to quit after several meetings with the Gloucestershire Magistrates Association . |
| 27 | She marked with satisfaction that he appeared to brood on that . |
| 28 | He realised too that he needed to know about both . |