Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] that he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 2 | ‘ I only know that he drove a lorry . ’ |
| 3 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 4 | so she said erm , erm , I said I only understand that he fell out of bed last night , so she said yes but he 's quite comfortable now , I said is he , is he really ? |
| 5 | Lakatos 's rhetoric , then , does not leave room for much doubt that he wished to defend a rationalist position and deplored the relativist position . |
| 6 | There was a trench running down this one , too , its contents so foul that he walked with his feet astride it . |
| 7 | And in Britain company chairmen agree with the chancellor of the exchequer , Norman Lamont , about the need for ‘ wider share ownership ’ , but only wish that he had done more in his budget last week than simply to promise to bring privatisation sales direct to the high street . |
| 8 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 9 | By 1254 he was a canon of Exeter Cathedral , and we soon learn that he had become chancellor of the cathedral . |
| 10 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 11 | Further suppose that he had tried Kant 's remedy of being kind to his dogs , only to discover that it served merely to fan the flames of his misanthropy . |
| 12 | Manuscript sources state that he was an Augustinian canon at Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire and some also state that he died there on 23 or 24 March , 1395 – 96 . |
| 13 | Toby and I both think that he got himself involved in something that was too deep for him , and that is why he was killed . ’ |
| 14 | Little wonder that he went back to his post of principal of UMIST . |
| 15 | It was the same quick , hard beat that he felt in his lambs when they were close to death . |
| 16 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 17 | For once , she must tell him the truth , never mind that he had behaved so badly last night . |