Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 2 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 3 | He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go . |
| 4 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 5 | The Spaniard was upset and stated that he would never play in America again , a statement which delighted many Americans . |
| 6 | He ended the tour so upset and disorganized that he had no plans for the summer holiday . |
| 7 | Monks were supposed to enjoy Lectio : in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church , the monk had an encounter with the divine and felt that he was in some mysterious sense studying God himself . |
| 8 | His voice was pleasant and indicated that he was n't from this part of the country ; the South , she imagined . |
| 9 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 10 | He shook her awake and explained that he planned to make his way back into the forest , skirting the area of rocks , to get a closer look at whatever it was that had caught his attention . |
| 11 | Baldwin agreed that the request for a special bill was reasonable and said that he would commend it to his colleagues . |
| 12 | He was so angry and frustrated that he hardly noticed she was not yet dressed . |
| 13 | George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well . |
| 14 | Nigel was shocked and declared that he would rather be dead than red . |
| 15 | He grew very hot and thought that he was probably looking runnier than ever , but felt it would be courting horse trouble to take off his jacket . |
| 16 | He was so distressed and shocked that he did n't play in the first two Tests , batted himself at No. 8 in the third and fourth matches , and withdrew from the fifth . |
| 17 | Zapata strenuously denied opposition claims that his election had been fraudulent and stated that he was standing down to avoid " endangering the possibilities of peaceful coexistence " with rival political forces in the state . |
| 18 | He was so overwhelmed and flattered that he could not argue , but when he started working on the ballet he found that the music ( an orchestrated version of Schubert 's four-handed piano pieces ) ‘ said nothing to me ’ . |
| 19 | He was non-committal , and she was surprised and relieved that he had agreed so swiftly . |
| 20 | frightened and said that he would |
| 21 | She raised her head , astonished and relieved that he had not seen through her . |