Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [that] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 2 | The party who supplies the infant does so at his peril ; it will not avail him that he did not know that he was dealing with an infant , or that he thought that his position in life was such as to make the goods necessary , or that he did not know that the infant was already sufficiently supplied . |
| 3 | I had the feeling that he thought that his father did n't look after Lou well enough . ’ |
| 4 | In striking down the law Duplantier made it clear that he hoped that his decision would provide the opportunity for the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1973 judgement Roe v. Wade which provided the foundation of legal abortion in the US . |
| 5 | It was only in the last six or seven years of his life that he discovered that his talents lay elsewhere : in polemics , above all , and in what Waugh in his letter of thanks for Animal Farm had called ingenious and delightful allegory . |
| 6 | It was then , too , that he found that her meeting with the King 's mother was over — happily , as she told him , smiling ; although her welcome would not be complete until the King himself left St Hilarion and sent for her . |
| 7 | The relief was so great that he found that his hand was creeping across the table towards hers . |
| 8 | And one who did not want to be punished , either , was their other comment , as witness the way he was prepared to kill Rose Hilaire once he saw that her tie-up with Joe and John Coffin would enable her memories of what she had seen of Ephraim 's body to go straight to dangerous quarters . |
| 9 | She looked imploring , and he realized that her eyelashes were golden , too . |
| 10 | And he ordered that his daughters should be brought up in the studies beseeming dames . |
| 11 | But he took such duties seriously ; he often had to give his opinion on the work of young poets who were about to be dispatched into the war : and he knew that his comments might be the last they ever received . |
| 12 | This was n't his world — and Madam Lundy knew that — and he knew that his chances of finding the boy and girl were very remote indeed . |
| 13 | But as quickly as his arm had gone out , it returned to his side , jerked back there as if by a spring ; and he noticed that his action had n't gone unnoticed by Mick . |
| 14 | He was certainly faced with claims for large commission payments arising out of his company promotions ; and he alleged that his partner Martin Rucker had removed £506,000 from the business ( in addition to shares ) in six months . |
| 15 | Jehan glanced at Jehana to see why she had not answered , and he saw that her face was crimson with embarrassment . |
| 16 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 17 | We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out . |
| 18 | a boys ' school and the headmaster there advised me not to put him there , he said send him to Newport Grammar school it 's the best school in Essex , best grammar school in Essex and he said that my two boys go there |
| 19 | ‘ He played it into the side but it powered off again and he complained that his arms were hurting , so I took the rod back from him and landed the fish , ’ he added . |
| 20 | This time there were bubbles of water , and he concluded that his first sample — ostensibly uncontaminated fuel — had actually been nearly 100 per cent water . |
| 21 | ‘ He was screaming at me , ‘ Get outta here , my son 's in Vietnam ’ and then the local sheriff came in and he shouted that his son was in Vietnam and why was n't I in Vietnam ? |
| 22 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 23 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 24 | And he confessed that his success was partly due to learning a harsh lesson at QPR . |
| 25 | James ' research for this brilliant book had taken him to the archives at Bordeaux , whereupon he discovered that his fellow Trinidadian , Eric Williams , had been there before him . |
| 26 | If he felt that his work lay here , it was not for her to question his decision , but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind . |
| 27 | Even an unscrupulous Sally-Anne could not quite kill her mama off completely — if he thought that her mama had bolted , well , so be it . |
| 28 | When he spoke it was in a barely audible voice as if he feared that his words would carry beyond the four walls . |
| 29 | How would he act if he knew that his career was to be made into fiction , to serve as an object lesson , and a name of opprobrium , to the generations that followed him ? |
| 30 | In parliament he was wont to abandon an argument half-completed if he sensed that his point had been made ; the speeches that appear in Hansard were touched up by his staff , and his speeches in the country were given to the press in advance . |