Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson found the terrain ‘ still naked ’ but bountiful , with land so utterly ploughed that he wondered where the grass grew to feed the plough-horses . |
| 2 | Hoomey had long ago decided that he was the duff member of the team and knew that the worst score was discarded , and so felt that there was little onus on him . |
| 3 | It just so happened that he , you know , he was alright , and the car was a right-off . |
| 4 | I still constantly feared that he would die . |
| 5 | At one point he even cheerfully admitted that he might not be a real scientist at all . |
| 6 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 7 | Joe 's absence almost certainly meant that he had succeeded in persuading a girl called Jill into going out with him . |
| 8 | I should explain that I never once thought that he should ‘ give way to me ’ — as Nonni said he should — because I was ill ; only because , as I told him , I had always thought of him as ‘ a reasonable human being with some pretensions to morality ’ . |
| 9 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 10 | The day after that , a man came in and very loudly said that he had no time for God , but he wanted a colouring book for the children of his Greek neighbours , to show his acceptance of them . |
| 11 | The guard never even knew that he opened the door and locked himself in once the Doctor had gone . |
| 12 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |