Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was delighted with this and said that he would send his advisers to see me — on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 2 | Vesman developed this and showed that he could explain the temperature dependence of muon + dd fusion if there is a rather loosely bound state in a complex molecular system involving three deuterons where the nuclei were encircled partly by electrons and partly by muons . |
| 3 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 4 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 5 | He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go . |
| 6 | Helaf Orbis Ali resigned as Minister of Labour on Aug. 26 and announced that he was leaving the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) to join the United Opposition Front ( UOF ) — an umbrella group including members of the parliamentary opposition and the opposition guerrilla Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) . |
| 7 | N'Zau Puna contacted the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) in London on March 10 and said that he and Fernandes had left UNITA because of " mistakes and irregularities at the heart of the organization " . |
| 8 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 9 | He did not say much but agreed that he had had queer thoughts ad wondered whether they really were due to normal depression or the influence of the discovery . |
| 10 | He tried to sound jocular but realised that he sounded almost pleading . |
| 11 | The Spaniard was upset and stated that he would never play in America again , a statement which delighted many Americans . |
| 12 | He ended the tour so upset and disorganized that he had no plans for the summer holiday . |
| 13 | Monks were supposed to enjoy Lectio : in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church , the monk had an encounter with the divine and felt that he was in some mysterious sense studying God himself . |
| 14 | He was extremely hurt by that and announced that he was a moderate and a patriot . |
| 15 | His voice was pleasant and indicated that he was n't from this part of the country ; the South , she imagined . |
| 16 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 17 | He felt guilty but relieved that he had not put his name to it . |
| 18 | He shook her awake and explained that he planned to make his way back into the forest , skirting the area of rocks , to get a closer look at whatever it was that had caught his attention . |
| 19 | Baldwin agreed that the request for a special bill was reasonable and said that he would commend it to his colleagues . |
| 20 | He was so angry and frustrated that he hardly noticed she was not yet dressed . |
| 21 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 22 | George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well . |
| 23 | Nigel was shocked and declared that he would rather be dead than red . |
| 24 | He grew very hot and thought that he was probably looking runnier than ever , but felt it would be courting horse trouble to take off his jacket . |
| 25 | He also wore uniform but explained that he only held an honorary rank . |
| 26 | He was so distressed and shocked that he did n't play in the first two Tests , batted himself at No. 8 in the third and fourth matches , and withdrew from the fifth . |
| 27 | He was not prosecuted when he returned to England in 1919 and insisted that he had been employed by British Naval Intelligence . |
| 28 | Peter had set aside this one bottle when I won the Catalan Open in 1989 and said that he would open it when I won my next Tour event . |
| 29 | Zapata strenuously denied opposition claims that his election had been fraudulent and stated that he was standing down to avoid " endangering the possibilities of peaceful coexistence " with rival political forces in the state . |
| 30 | He was so overwhelmed and flattered that he could not argue , but when he started working on the ballet he found that the music ( an orchestrated version of Schubert 's four-handed piano pieces ) ‘ said nothing to me ’ . |