Example sentences of "[adj] that he [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has reached the point where he thinks he is so right that he has in fact ceased to develop . |
| 2 | Sir : I am sorry that John Torode ( 3 October ) found the Salman Rushdie seminar ‘ dispiriting ’ , and even more sorry that he perceives in it the birth of a ‘ dangerously illiberal orthodoxy ’ . |
| 3 | And often , says Penny Mansfield , it 's not so much that he falls in love with another woman but he 's at a stage in life where he wants some diversion . |
| 4 | In saying this , it is likely that he had in mind not merely Lessing 's criterion of beauty , but his fundamental contrast between poetry and the visual arts . |
| 5 | You can buy slack-key that he did in the '40s and the '50s and the '60s , it 's all there . |
| 6 | The sun exploded into whiteness and the muddy grass turned to sand so fine that he sank in it ankle-deep as he ran . |
| 7 | Make sure that he has in front of him the names of new members of the committee , so that he can welcome them . |
| 8 | That was all that he had in mind , as Prior Robert , bewildered and displeased by what seemed to him very grudging acceptance of a duty that should have conveyed honour upon the recipient , waved Jerome imperiously to the altar . |
| 9 | Edward hurled all that he had in his hands , the purse , the scent , which struck the rat in the paunch . |
| 10 | One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art . |
| 11 | The Great Detective , for all that he figures in mere detective stories , is a figure to parallel with the great poet and the great scientist because in solving the sort of genuinely baffling mystery that confronts him , in fact he goes some way to solving a yet greater mystery , the mystery of the human personality . |
| 12 | It 's important that when a member is made redundant that he keep in contact with his industry , so that he 's in a position to be able to regain employment and also regain employment for his , for his or her fellow unemployed . |
| 13 | And when he wrote ‘ Tho ’ my errors and wrecks lie about me' , I believe that cantos like 107 and 108 were those that he had in mind ; and that he was right to judge them thus harshly . |
| 14 | She 's fretting over Garry 's absence , and according to her doctor it 's important that he gets in touch with her without delay . ’ |
| 15 | 13 That he believed in Beauty . |
| 16 | For each Fanatic in turn roll a scatter dice to determine which direction it moves in — the Goblin is now so utterly disorientated that he moves in a random direction . |
| 17 | Similarly , it is hardly surprising that he speaks in glowing and not always accurate terms of Cnut 's reign itself . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that he found in addition to writing about her , he had to sing about her , too . |
| 19 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 20 | ‘ I could see that he had not had a drink yet and I was doubly surprised that he seemed in a good mood . ’ |
| 21 | It was in 1947 that he appeared in It Happened in Brooklyn , playing second fiddle to a scrawny thirty-one-year-old bobbysox idol with hollow cheeks , Frank Sinatra . |
| 22 | Burton was not told that he had been superseded , and it was not until February 1856 that he sent in his fee account , which was received by the Treasury ‘ with great surprise ’ . |