Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , although there is an increase in circulating catecholamines in response to theophylline , in the one study he quoted that did not relate to overdose , the effect on blood glucose was clinically insignificant . |
| 2 | The main reason for the better than expected results appeared to be a delay in expenditure by the regional governments but in the longer term he said that cuts in public expenditure had helped to reduce the budget deficit from a peak of almost 13 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) in 1982 to 7.8 per cent in 1988 and 6.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 3 | John Taylor claims that a report he wrote that called for improvements was not acted on and research was stopped . |
| 4 | That on the one hand he felt that to do so would be a betrayal , and on the other , an impossibility : how was he to find another woman as pure , as mysteriously beautiful ? |
| 5 | He intrigued her , there was something about the way he acted , the way he spoke that made him different from all the other vagrants that she had met . |
| 6 | There was something in the way he spoke that riveted her attention . |
| 7 | There was an odd quality to the tone he used that sent her rushing in to speech . |
| 8 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 9 | In each embassy he knew that had a Legal Attaché 's office there was a lady who looked like everyone 's mother , and who did the confidential typing and the greeting downstairs . |
| 10 | Also it was about time he learnt that bossing her around would n't be a push-over for him . |