Example sentences of "[adj] that he [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination . |
| 2 | But he was to find no lasting romance again and , as the years went by , it became clear that he had not lost his love for Gabrielle . |
| 3 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 4 | When we played at his club in Westwood and I beat him comfortably , he discussed the result with his friends in such a way that it was clear that he had deliberately thrown the match in order to contribute to our personal relationship . |
| 5 | Writing these articles increased Marx 's interest in the nature of these societies and it is clear that he read widely , especially about India . |
| 6 | From these it is clear that he identified completely with the men in the outposts , believing as they did that if all was well in the boma the empire could be left to take care of itself . |
| 7 | It was clear that he did n't know , nor did he seem much to care ; ‘ Oh it 's probably something or other . |
| 8 | Instead , he got out of the car and slid the keys into his pocket , making it very clear that he did n't intend to take her anywhere . |
| 9 | He did n't actually call her a liar out loud , but it was clear that he did n't believe her . |
| 10 | He sounded annoyed , and Robbie felt a wave of irritation at his cavalier attitude towards her , but since he had made it perfectly clear that he did n't appreciate her intruding on his private life … |
| 11 | While he was not openly aggressive to the strong Barbarossa , he certainly made it clear that he did not wish the emperor to interfere in ecclesiastical matters . |
| 12 | Whether this visit took place after Anselm 's return to England in September 1100 is unclear , but Anselm left the pope in no doubt about his view of the matter , and the pope promised to send no legate with authority over Canterbury during Anselm 's life time ; but it is clear that he did not , and could not , accept the Canterbury claim made by Anselm , that he should never appoint a legate in England other than the archbishop himself . |
| 13 | There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great . |
| 14 | ( He later made it clear that he did not wish the letters revealing his generosity to be published . ) |
| 15 | She could hardly descend on Giovanna Sassanta 's house without an appointment , and Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want her to cross the threshold of his hospital . |
| 16 | Sir Wilfrid was more polite , but it was clear that he did not believe Mr Appin 's story . |
| 17 | I tried once or twice to reverse our roles , but he again made it clear that he did not want to talk about himself I said nothing about the glove . |
| 18 | Clark had , however , made it clear that he did not wish to continue for a further term and , as a consequence of an Academic Board working party 's recommendation , a permanent post was created and filled externally by the appointment of the author . |
| 19 | From an early age , Shah Jehan made it clear that he did not care for his third son , and instead increasingly lavished attention on the more amiable Dara Shukoh . |
| 20 | Why , it might still be asked , did Franco go to so much trouble to give the impression that his regime had a basis other than sheer force , when that selfsame exercise made it clear that he did not need to ? |
| 21 | Mr Hull made it clear that he did not know very much about the paintings and that he was not an expert in them . |
| 22 | But it became increasingly clear that he did not . |
| 23 | If so , it is clear that he gave up after a short while , returned to E ( which needed a fresh set of running titles before printing could resume ) and finished it off regardless . |
| 24 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 25 | She could n't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst . |
| 26 | It surprised some that he did not retire to Cambridge . |
| 27 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
| 28 | At first , she was afraid that he had not turned up because he was not waiting , as he had promised , by Mr Bishop 's kiosk . |
| 29 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 30 | So much so that a theatre fireman laughed so loud that he fell over , accidentally rang the firebell and brought the curtain down prematurely . |