Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when his own belief in himself as a great player could backfire on him if he failed to realize that he was having an off day , and he could look stubborn and bloody-minded as a result . |
| 2 | He felt strangely afraid and tried to pretend that he had not seen him , but Basil hurried after him . |
| 3 | In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours . |
| 4 | The young houseman appeared to be consulting a list , and Richard , anxious to help a beginner , tried to indicate that he would bleed from the ears if it was the right thing to do . |
| 5 | At that moment an elderly man rose to announce that he was the ‘ Wapping Poet ’ . |
| 6 | Charsky tried to shout that he too was here , but could n't utter a sound . |
| 7 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 8 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 9 | By so doing he changed the very character of the conflict , for through the creation of a wider involvement in its success he tried to ensure that he , and his successors , would have broad support for the continued involvement of England and Englishmen in France . |
| 10 | Now , as he watched him limping and staggering up the slope , it occurred to hint that he might actually be wounded in some way . |
| 11 | If he were here to answer the question , I suspect that he would be in considerable difficulty if he tried to say that he continued to oppose those privatisations . |
| 12 | It was when he tried to move that he found his robe was caught on some obstruction . |
| 13 | ‘ … it shall be defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know , and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . ’ |
| 14 | In any proceedings for an offence under this Act of supplying or offering to supply goods to which a false trade description is applied it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . |
| 15 | A neutral moon returned that night to shine on a thousand freshly dug graves , and Charlie swore to whatever God cared to listen that he would not forget his father or Tommy , or , for that matter , Captain Trentham . |
| 16 | She ceased to wonder that he had survived his long ordeal of flight and hiding and hunger ; he was durable beyond most men . |
| 17 | Dustin 's macho response seemed to indicate that he would not want his wife to work . |
| 18 | Paul wriggled , and the look on his face seemed to indicate that he would n't actually mind wasting anything , just so long as he got to hit the bell with his plank of wood . |
| 19 | You know , it could n't be you know w we we could n't produce what he wanted , and certainly the material was n't there for the things he wanted to do , and yet he seemed to assume that he knew everything and would n't take any advice from the experienced men in the quarry . |
| 20 | With the failure of peace moves Evelyn 's allegiance to Parliament faltered in August 1643 : he retired to Godstone but came under suspicion following the interception of a letter which seemed to suggest that he and his nephew were preparing to make their peace with the king . |
| 21 | Wilkos comments after the game seemed to suggest that he thinks cantona is a fair-weather player . |
| 22 | A lot of the time she just seemed to forget that he was there , and he 'd shamble along behind her just happy to stay close . ’ |
| 23 | He came to believe that he could do it . |
| 24 | It would be a good idea , he pointed out to the noble lord , to buy a large freehold estate and divide it into twelve , creating twelve new freeholders who would be entitled to a vote each because of the property qualification ; he hastened to add that he would personally make sure that only suitable Tory adherents were thus enfranchised . |
| 25 | He seemed to think that he had an idiot for an accuser , but his solicitor was not so happy ; he did n't seem to like the idea of having to address a witness through an intermediary . |
| 26 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 27 | As an undergraduate , says Walton , if he had a fault it was ‘ that he kept himself retired and at too great a distance with all his inferiors ; and his clothes seemed to prove that he put too great a value on his parts and parentage ’ . |
| 28 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
| 29 | Still hopelessly divided , they expected to hear that he had tendered their collective resignations to the King . |
| 30 | It 's possible that Fedorov may have exceeded his authority : I forgot to mention that he 's a madman , though he succeeds in disguising it most of the time . |