Example sentences of "[v-ing] that he [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 2 | ‘ That was before the shrimp dish reached the dining-room ’ , said Milsom , revealing that he already knew a great deal about the evening . |
| 3 | ‘ There 'll be a bit off for luck ? ’ he asked , proving that he still retained some of the guile he had picked up as a practising country lawyer . |
| 4 | ‘ What are you waiting for ? ’ hissed Cardiff , tearing the tie loose from his collar , realising that he still had the automatic in his other hand but had been unable to use it again . |
| 5 | The extension of the offence to include obtaining possession or control will have the result that if Kilham , although pretending that he only wanted to borrow the horse , had in fact intended to deprive the owner permanently , he would be guilty under the clause , because he obtained possession of the horse . |
| 6 | Would Mr Lawson then have resisted the temptation to trundle round his Cabinet colleagues , showing off his muscles and boasting that he alone had faced up to the Iron Lady and won ? |
| 7 | Fretting that he still had not written to Liza , he proved to be a difficult patient in more ways than one . |
| 8 | The Attorney General , Sir Hartley Shawcross , agreed with the Lord Chancellor that the grading of murders would be unworkable , adding that he still remained in favour of providing for the abolition of capital punishment in the Bill . |
| 9 | He did attempt to reassure me ( perhaps of his sanity ) by adding that he only had a ‘ basic marine system ’ in mind — not a miniature reef system or a 600 gallon show tank job . |
| 10 | By stating that he rarely went to the theatre , and needed to be forcibly taken there if he went at all , he managed to lay bare the inadequacies of modern drama and defined the conditions of a new sort of drama altogether . |
| 11 | Suchinda resigned as Prime Minister on May 24 , stating that he strongly regretted the events which had occurred during his brief premiership . |
| 12 | On March 17 he had apologised publicly to the " victims of deplorable and regrettable incidents " under his regime , stating that he now had " a profound , sincere and irreversible " commitment to reform . |
| 13 | It almost goes without saying that he also had fine , Beatle-cropped brown hair and affected a close-clipped beard with the dense consistency of fur . |
| 14 | On May 7 Wörner was quoted as saying that he strongly favoured a " European pillar " within NATO and that the WEU would be an appropriate institution to embody it . |
| 15 | Alexander ‘ I am in control ’ Haig , Nixon 's last national security assistant , was quoted as saying that he sometimes had to act as president when ‘ Nixon was drunk . ’ |
| 16 | Probably by saying that he only supplied what custom dictated as appropriate to the social status of the deceased , and that everything was done for the complete satisfaction of his client . |
| 17 | Chris had written a letter to Tina Jelly in Aldershot saying that he still loved her and missed her a lot , but was sure that until he came home she would be able to go out with his mates from the Royal Signals . |
| 18 | In that spirit , John Davenport , that lazy , combative and yet most perceptive of critics , wrote to me saying that he almost hoped not to have to share his pleasure in this book with too many other people . |
| 19 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 20 | David Elsworth seemed quite satisfied with the performance of Barnbrook Again , observing that he still had 17 days before the big race . |
| 21 | He was also a vegetarian , although the story goes that Chapman persuaded him to eat steaks after hearing that he sometimes felt faint when heading a ball . |
| 22 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 23 | If she did that , she would be admitting that he still had the power to affect her , and she was n't going to do that ! |
| 24 | A senior SDPJ legislator , Ryoichi Yasutsune , agreed to resign from the party on March 16 after admitting that he too had received funds from Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin . |
| 25 | A shopkeeper in Nuremberg who said to a customer what ‘ in these days was common to almost everybody in Nuremberg ’ , that Hitler was set on continuing the war , tried to deceive the people into thinking that he still had a miracle weapon , and was ‘ nothing more than a criminal ’ , was denounced by the customer , taken away by the police , and shot for ‘ subversion of the military power ’ . |
| 26 | But A J Lubin is mistaken in thinking that he now announced his intention to become an artist . |
| 27 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 28 | He turned to walk on alone , not realizing that he still loved her . |