Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] that he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could be more personal now that he did n't have to go through a nosy newspaper office . |
| 2 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |
| 3 | Although he was still away fairly often , visiting the mills in Leeds and Bradford which provided the bulk of his income , he was more relaxed now that he felt that he was mastering the intricacies of the various businesses which had been allowed to slip into low productivity during his father 's ill-health . |
| 4 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 5 | It is almost certain that he would have had to take evasive action to miss Roddymoor 's houses and likely too that he tried to make a pond to douse the licking flames . |
| 6 | He was staring at the lake , regretful perhaps that he 'd said too much not to say more . |
| 7 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |
| 8 | Madame wondered how long it would be before Boy got his hair cropped short so that he looked just like the others . |
| 9 | By right and custom , he himself and James here should be going back to the house for the reading of the will , but this very new Sir Joseph had made it evident yesterday that he wanted no reading done in the house and that he would let them know when he wanted the matter dealt with . |
| 10 | Anton was shocked enough that he spoke to him but almost jumped when the hand fell on his knee . |
| 11 | He tried to make his voice gentle so that he did n't antagonize her . |
| 12 | Yes , I mean I think erm some of us were a bit disappointed perhaps that he did n't erm find erm a woman to put into his cabinet . |
| 13 | ‘ I — like it , ’ he breathed , and she was n't at all certain then that he did n't kiss the top of her head . |
| 14 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 15 | It had been bad enough that he thought she was interested before this had happened . |