Example sentences of "[noun] [that] he [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 2 | It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession . |
| 3 | But as he left , Billy Ray , 31 , indicated to fans that he had only two finger-lickin' minutes to spare . |
| 4 | Carvajal resigned on March 12 , informing the President that he did so in order to protect " the image of the nation , its people and the police , whose reputation is being soiled by sinister interests " . |
| 5 | In Washington he is considered an ineffective legislator and not a nice man ( his latest scrape involved the allegation that he had sexually harassed a Peace Corps worker while on a jaunt to Africa ) . |
| 6 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 7 | She 's punishing Andrew for marrying Virginia , even though it was her own fault that he did so . " |
| 8 | Callaghan told Joel Barnett that he had never felt so depressed , and the news spread . |
| 9 | He did n't sleep , despite being tired , but sat up into the small hours with an object of study that he 'd previously dismissed as fanciful nonsense : Chant 's final letter . |
| 10 | Third , when Franco dispensed with the services of the pro-Axis Serrano Suñer at the end of summer 1942 , it was an indication that he felt very self-confident and that , consequently , he was unlikely to yield to pressure to withdraw . |
| 11 | He handed her a hamburger but made no indication that he had ever met Martin . |
| 12 | Later that afternoon Mr Brownlow wanted to return some books to a bookseller , and to send some money for new books that he had already collected . |
| 13 | It was her dad 's favourite piece that he 'd always refused to sell and which had had pride of place on top of the mantelpiece in the parlour . |
| 14 | And the context in which this was er argued er was er the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba , a C I A American supported invasion , er which er failed very badly but which certainly indicated the American desire to get rid of Castro and er Khrushchev was asserting in effect that he had as much right to defend an ally as the United States had er to defend erm its allies and in the same sort of way . |
| 15 | And the context in which this was er argued er was er the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba , a C I A American supported invasion , er which er failed very badly but which certainly indicated the American desire to get rid of Castro and er Khrushchev was asserting in effect that he had as much right to defend an ally as the United States had er to defend erm its allies and in the same sort of way . |
| 16 | Often disdaining to wear a left-hand glove , he tore into the bowling to such effect that he scored around 62 runs per hour , a rate beaten by no ‘ proper ’ batsman in cricket history except Jessop . |
| 17 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 18 | No report of the treatment appears to have been published at the time , but evidence has come to light that he did indeed treat at least one patient , a young nurse with a persistent abscess resulting from injuries received in a street accident . |
| 19 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 20 | He suffered from the small disadvantage that he had never been to Rhodesia . |
| 21 | He was so absorbed in the rivalry between Egypt and Syria that he attributed comparatively little importance to the fact that the Seleucid monarchy still had a large interest in the Iranian plateau ( see , however , 8.5 ) . |
| 22 | It is no defence that he acted reasonably if in fact the goods are not reasonably fit for their purpose . |
| 23 | Such was Beltrami 's legal skills that he had already secured one postponement of the trial , citing Celtic 's European Cup commitments as a bona fide reason . |
| 24 | Then , during the afternoon he put in a personal appearance at three of the funeral parlours that he 'd recently acquired for the company as part of his new expansion programme . |
| 25 | Mystical experience never arrives out of the blue ; it is always influenced by the religious milieu of the mystic , even though he may want to transcend the beliefs and attitudes that he found there . |
| 26 | The sheep had gone strangely quiet and there was a queer thundering noise that he 'd never heard before . |
| 27 | The surgeon also abused the patient , and it was a misuse of professional privilege that he did so . |
| 28 | They will go about the city in the weeks to come , and Phil will point out things behind doorways and up courtyards that he 'd never noticed , and explain how the whole set-up of the city is really a conspiracy , and read out public notices in a voice that makes them suddenly ridiculous , and persuade him to believe preposterous stories . |
| 29 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 30 | The UUUC coalition informed each of the 8 Official Unionist members from the dissolved parliament that he had either to align himself with it or fight for his seat . |