Example sentences of "[verb] [that] he [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh 's mother , climbing out of her taxi with a zip bag full of baby clothes , heard the laughter and wondered if she should contact Hugh in wherever it was and suggest that he came home . |
| 2 | I do know that he became very depressed when the times were bad and he had the mortgage payments to meet . |
| 3 | On Friday the boss called the boy into his office noticing that he had only felled one tree . |
| 4 | But it is impossible to accept that he acted alone in such an amateurish manner . |
| 5 | It may be of interest to many , particularly Bennett 's detractors , to know that he disapproved originally of the Main Force having H2S , even the earlier versions . |
| 6 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 7 | She had also claimed that he took long liquid lunches and had even been thrown out of a wine bar for fondling another girl . |
| 8 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 9 | As we approached the river , the Trent , which had a bathing-place in the grounds , he mentioned that he had already had a dip and recommended it . |
| 10 | James mentioned that he had never understood why people went on strike until he became a wage-earner . |
| 11 | Then , in the late summer of 1931 , he writes that he passed definitely from this position of ‘ rational meism , into a fall acceptance of the Christian dispensation . |
| 12 | On our way we called on the established church minister , who had been the means of our coming to the Island , and with whom we had special business , and were immensely tickled to find that he had actually fled ! |
| 13 | Eventually his mother was asked to remove him because the staff never managed to bring his behaviour under control ; they found that he produced just too much undesirable behaviour for them to get to grips with . |
| 14 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 15 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 16 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 17 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 18 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 19 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 20 | Mr B. P. reported that he had already lost 3 stone some time before but had stuck at 15 stone and was pleased when he started to lose again . |
| 21 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 22 | Also I express surprise at the Labour leader 's volte face a short while ago in the press he reported that he had more important matters to think about , or discuss insofar as fox fox hunting was concerned or words to that effect . |
| 23 | Mrs Orton took it upon herself , watching him pick at a little heap of sprouts and chestnut , to observe that he had very likely made himself ill with being faddy . |
| 24 | As his eyes fell on the crucifix he realized that he 'd always loathed it , and in a small gesture of defiance he lifted it off its hook and set it down on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 25 | He realized that he had just murmured something under his breath . |
| 26 | Perhaps , as Debré suggests , he realized that he had now become a prisoner of his own institutions , President de Gaulle instead of General de Gaulle . |
| 27 | Sullivan realized that he had almost no one to talk to , except , of course , Sullivan himself and Parsons . |
| 28 | The small foreign person was walking as jauntily as ever , though Bramble realized that he did so with a pronounced limp . |
| 29 | The Marshal could recall no hard and fast rule about it but he could n't think that he had ever seen the pipers during Lent . |
| 30 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |