Example sentences of "he [verb] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also sent his brother a sketch of the little church at Turnham Green — together with a sketch of another church at Petersham — and he records that he returned to Turnham Green on a number of occasions subsequently . |
| 2 | With an increase of bland courtesy he insists that she stay in the car while he talks to the girl behind the Reception desk . |
| 3 | But he insists that it follows from it and others of the same kind that knowledge is impossible . |
| 4 | He argued that they consisted of a material substance , the ‘ germ plasm ’ , which transmitted characters from parents to offspring via the nucleus of the egg and sperm cells . |
| 5 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 6 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 8 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 9 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |
| 10 | He accepts that it has to be traded off against the 25 per cent improvement in fuel consumption and longer engine life . |
| 11 | He says that they sample for dozens of chemicals — the Severn supplies drinking water so they have to be accurate . |
| 12 | He says that they went into the deal with their eyes open , there is no way the council treated them unfairly . |
| 13 | He says that they spoke to Mr Morley and he agreed to come out . |
| 14 | He says that whatever needs to be done should be done to stop anything similar happening . |
| 15 | He says that it needs to be tested . |
| 16 | He says that he seemed like a nice chap . |
| 17 | He says that he worked at Emma 's request to produce a record of the deeds which touched upon the honour of her and hers , and the oldest surviving manuscript , which is very close to the author 's original , may be the copy she received : it contains a miniature which shows an ecclesiastic presenting a book to a woman while two figures , presumably her sons Harthacnut and Edward , look on . |
| 18 | Sharpe had no watch , but he estimated that he stayed at the edge of the wood for two hours during which time he counted twenty-two guns and forty-eight supply wagons . |
| 19 | He believed that he came from God , revealed God , spoke for God , acted for God , was a channel for God 's grace and salvation . |
| 20 | He claimed that they contributed to the ‘ degeneration of a once prestigious avenue ’ . |
| 21 | A further gloss on this quieter side of his character appears during Johnson 's own reflection in ( rather than upon ) Montrose — where he comments that he has by now had an opportunity to compare Scotland 's beggars with others he has seen . |
| 22 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 23 | He theorized that she went into a shop and lashed out a bob or two on something like a tin of baked beans . |
| 24 | To his surprise he discovered that it produced in him the symptoms and signs of the illness which it was used to treat , namely malaria , which in those days was known as intermittent fever . |
| 25 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 26 | ‘ When he heard that you wanted to be near Marilla , he decided to teach at a school in another village . |
| 27 | So badly was he affected that he had to be taught to speak again . |
| 28 | ‘ Because he senses that she looks on him with disdain , ’ Lucy informed him . |
| 29 | He ascertained that it related to the evidence and not to the law , but he did not find out what the problem was and merely gave general guidance . |
| 30 | He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers . |