Example sentences of "[that] he [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as a policeman that he learnt to kill people . |
| 2 | Here it was that he learnt to draw dresses . |
| 3 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 4 | His defence advocate , James Reilly said : ‘ It is to his credit that he returned to face the music . ’ |
| 5 | McFarlane was then no longer in government ; he travelled to Iran on Reagan 's orders , accompanied by North , Amiram Nir of Israel and half a pallet of missile parts that he hoped to exchange for hostages . |
| 6 | On 16 November 1987 solicitors acting for the first defendant wrote saying that he hoped to sell the property , and the proceedings were adjourned generally . |
| 7 | Lamb had finally yielded to an invitation from Coleridge to travel west , and wrote at the end of June to say that he hoped to arrive at Stowey the following weak . |
| 8 | The DP 's president , Sali Berisha , said on March 24 that he hoped to form a coalition government with " outside personalities " . |
| 9 | Iain Bennet , of Price Waterhouse , said yesterday that he hoped to conclude negotiations on the sale of the assets at Piper Plant 's Rugby depot soon . |
| 10 | Lin says that he hoped to issue the Tchaikovsky with the Glazunov concerto , which is at least an unusual ( though not an unprecedented ) coupling . |
| 11 | For his part , Yeltsin on May 29 said that he hoped to build a partnership with Gorbachev " not on confrontation but on a businesslike basis , on dialogue and talks " . |
| 12 | In yet another shop , a lad told me that he hoped to obtain a more powerful model in about a month but he did n't have any literature I could look at . |
| 13 | In a letter written just before this last trip he asked the Bishop to act as his next-of-kin , mentioned a small legacy to the diocese , and added that he hoped to benefit the Church in Burma with many years of service rather than with a paltry sum of money . |
| 14 | He also signalled that he hoped to have talks with Zulu leaders , including Buthelezi , in the near future . |
| 15 | Finch turned on his side with an upheaval that he hoped to look final . |
| 16 | Miller had told Richardson that he hoped to correspond with Dr Alston , King 's Professor of Botany in Edinburgh … ‘ a man of learning and has good skill in distinguishing plants and a great share of modesty ’ . |
| 17 | By the time Charlie and Tommy climbed through the ropes , Tommy had made it clear to his friend that he hoped to get away with three minutes ' shadow-boxing . |
| 18 | Mr Gillis had stuck a plastic hook near the top of this door on the inside and it was here that he chose to hang his white trilby . |
| 19 | At last he was content with his relationship with one woman ; there seemed to be no others that he chose to flirt with . |
| 20 | However , it was on financial policies that he chose to oppose his senior colleague , the lord treasurer Thomas Osborne , first Earl of Danby [ q.v. ] , and in May 1676 he was dismissed , losing his pension in 1678 and his place in the council in 1679 . |
| 21 | Yes , I was surprised because it 's an unusual course for a judge to take , but I was very encouraged that he chose to do so by the terms of his remarks . |
| 22 | And it was as crime stories , mystery puzzles , that he chose to embody his way of commenting on the follies of mankind . |
| 23 | I mean , he did n't know about genes and he was rather lucky that he chose to study the aspects of things he did . |
| 24 | The methods that he chose to investigate this phenomenon were mainly social-psychological , enquiring into the motivations and psychological reactions of individual peasants rather than into the concrete structures and conditions of their lives . |
| 25 | As he has outlined , the details of the case are extremely delicate and sensitive and , considering some of the descriptions of the case that he has given , it seems extraordinary that he chose to raise the matter on the Floor of the House . |
| 26 | Was it sheer bravado on Obispal 's part that he disdained to fire explosive bolts at that creature which itself could not manipulate a gun ? |
| 27 | We reached the low white picket-fence , the only insulation from his subjects that he cared to have . |
| 28 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 29 | Swod allowed himself a quarter smile at her recognition but his body was so unused to this display of emotion that he began to cough . |
| 30 | He began his bookselling activities in about 1770 from his father 's shop , but had moved to 13 Aldgate High Street by the end of 1773 ; it was at this time that his first publications came out , among them the Ladies ' Museum ( 1773–1814 ) , and that he began to explore the possibilities of circulating libraries . |