Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he must somehow tear the pain out with his hands or he knew that it would kill him . |
| 2 | Two years later the Union President , J. G. Greenhough , called up the old world to attack the new : he expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order although he accepted that it had ‘ little favour ’ in 1895 . |
| 3 | She did n't pick up the name Berowne although he knew that it was safely stowed in her mind . |
| 4 | When the barrister made his remark he was not aware that no such document existed , although he believed that it did because of what his client had said in evidence . |
| 5 | Here is the offensive chorus of the song that started the fight : The magistrate listened to all this with a benevolent interest , although he confessed that it sounded like six-of-one and half-a-dozen-of-the-other , and that it would be unwise to take any action without clarifying evidence . |
| 6 | Jotan 's expression suggested that he thought that it was only a matter of time . |
| 7 | The move was co-ordinated by the outgoing veteran Justice Minister Jarbas Passarinho , who stated that he hoped that it would " put an end to the wave of accusations of corruption against the government " . |
| 8 | The thought came to Alexei with such force and urgency that he knew that it was not a reasoned reaction . |
| 9 | When my Report was submitted to Mr Kenneth Baker , Secretary of State for Education and Science , he so much disliked it that he insisted that it should be printed back to front , starting with chapters 15 to 17 , which included our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study , and relegating the explanatory chapters 1 to 14 , which he thought unnecessary , to a kind of appendix . |
| 10 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 11 | It may well be that he considered that it was not the right thing for him to do , after all , he was a good Jew and why should he marry a Moabite . |
| 12 | It was only when he reached the closed doors that he remembered that it was Sunday . |
| 13 | Already the warmth was draining from the air and he knew that it was time they were moving . |
| 14 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 15 | This drew Boulton 's attention to it and he noticed that it was rather unusual . |
| 16 | And he agreed that it was a pity . |
| 17 | The treaty 's economic goals , Sir Michael told his audience of leading businessmen at Chartered Accountants ' Hall , remained valid , with or without progress towards monetary union , and he hoped that it would not fall apart . |
| 18 | Indeed Welford Beaton , like many other Hollywood figures , thought that Vidor had carried ‘ realism just a little farther than the public will prove willing to follow ’ and he brilliantly argued that films had to give hope and to show a way forward , but he did conceded that The Crowd was one of the best films ever made and he hoped that it would inspire further ventures into realism . |
| 19 | The UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd stated that the agreement had been achieved without " any sacrifice of sovereignty " over the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands and he hoped that it would be a turning point leading to a " new relationship " between the two countries . |
| 20 | Bombers were still going over Germany and he argued that it was indefensible to bomb cities where women and children could be killed . |
| 21 | As Zen stood there fiddling with the crucifix , the end of the upright suddenly came away cleanly in his hand and he saw that it was hollow and that the lower part of the shaft contained a heavy rectangular pack about two centimetres long connected to a wire running back into the shaft and disappearing through a small hole into the figure of Christ . |
| 22 | He had a proper reverence for the complexity of the living world , and he saw that it demands a very special kind of explanation . |
| 23 | And he felt that it would be in a sense a miracle to produce a detailed adaptation to a particular way of life , a kind of adaptation to being fertilized by bees that you see in an orchid , by a single a large jump . |
| 24 | Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms , and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe . |
| 25 | And he added that it would be ‘ silly ’ to forecast ‘ either tax reductions or increases ’ . |
| 26 | The plaintiff 's case rested solely on his own evidence , and he asked that it be taken on commission in Bucharest pleading ill-health . |
| 27 | Indeed , Fleury felt quite like a sculptor as he worked away and he thought that it must feel something like this to carve an object of beauty out of the primeval rock . |
| 28 | From the river 's edge it stretched back on to the plain for a distance of over a kilometre , and he thought that it must contain well over three thousand men . |
| 29 | And he thought that it did square , that there was a common root , a matrix of beliefs . |
| 30 | He could not find any and he realised that it would be the voice of Dame Melba which rang out in the backstreets as he advertised the fact that he had a gramophone for sale . |