Example sentences of "[that] the [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think I believed , or tried to believe , him when he repeatedly told me that the restrictions he placed upon me were for my own good . |
| 2 | His coming displayed no jot of his inner feelings , though his heart sank at the array of knee breeches and crinolines , and at last it occurred to him that the lunatics he had met upstairs were in Dickensian dress . |
| 3 | His hand was shaking so much that the bottle he was holding rattled against his glass like a window in a thunderstorm . |
| 4 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 5 | At the time he had assumed that she had simply contacted the address on some pretext and discovered that he had n't been there , but it was only later , when the argument had blown over , that he remembered that the address he had given his mother had been vacant . |
| 6 | But it was Eliot who in the end loosened the hold of the " modernists " on English culture — not only did he assert the public role and " social usefulness " of the writer in an almost nineteenth-century manner , but he also announced that the principles he derived from his religious belief were more enduring than literary or critical ones . |
| 7 | They argued that the principles he adopted had been politically motivated and should have had regard to the spending needs of each authority . |
| 8 | In both cases what really matters is the same : that the sign he observes directly — the bees , Rabbit 's saying ‘ yes ’ — should be correlated with honey , so that the belief he infers from the sign will be true . |
| 9 | C has infringed the patent for the process if he knows , or it would be obvious to a reasonable man , that the equipment he supplied was suitable for putting the process into effect and the equipment was intended to do so . |
| 10 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 11 | I think of him as an artist who writes history , and I take it that the history he writes includes the history he has principally suffered — that of Poland . |
| 12 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 13 | By this he means that the principle he had known as dominant in his life was the principle of sin and the death to which it inevitably led . |
| 14 | The Poles of the Congress Kingdom were not broken , for even Paskevich admitted in 1850 that the calm he had established merely reflected their " awareness of their powerlessness and their conviction of the incontestable might of your Imperial Highness " . |
| 15 | Good relations with creative people are also essential , for you may have to advise the art director that the transparency he has chosen wo n't reproduce too well . |
| 16 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 17 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 18 | Nothing can prevent people from saying that the answers he gave were not ‘ adult or ‘ fundamental ’ , but it should be obvious that such adjectives are as culture biased as Saruman 's ‘ real ’ : by themselves they express only the prejudices of the user . |
| 19 | On the one hand , Franco reiterated his belief that the common enemy was communism while , on the other , he insisted that the system he had instituted in Spain was neither Nazi nor fascist , but a unique and original synthesis which transcended both fascism and anti-fascism . |
| 20 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 21 | The trouble was that the things he wanted to write about were too big to fit into the exercise book . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister has told the Conservative Party Conference that the things he cares most about are stability at home and in Europe , Education , and Britain 's long-term economic strength . |
| 23 | ‘ The police assumed that the money he gave her was his bonus for the Madrid Open and the Italian Championship . ’ |
| 24 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 25 | The lawyer had always maintained that the money he received was a legitimate success fee for the vital role he played in the bitterly fought takeover battle . |
| 26 | I said that soon he would be in the Air Force and no longer a financial burden on Elfed , and , even more than that , when the war was over he would be a wage-earner at something or other , and would be able to help Elfed and Cis ; what was more , Elfed would be already well aware that the liability he resented would become an asset he welcomed . |
| 27 | That boy Ronan could convince even his own mother that the wounds he got in a playground were superficial , that the dirt on his clothes would easily wash out . |
| 28 | It was simply that the Katherine he saw through Thomas seemed a stranger . |
| 29 | His whole life was bound up in this relationship , despite the fact that the fief he received was not large , and that he also possessed allodial lands . |
| 30 | When I was a little girl and scarcely aware of Syl except as one of our neighbours , I had known that he was old to be unmarried and that the girls he brought home in his sports car were too young . |