Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was seeing Hector Henderson , and more and more as the days went on found that she needed him , his simplicity and his jolliness . |
| 2 | She went out with him faithfully for several months , and as time went on she found that she liked him both less and more . |
| 3 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
| 4 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 5 | He admitted that it saddened him to realise that ‘ my youth is gone — not my love of life or my energy , but I mean the time when one feels so lighthearted and carefree . ’ |
| 6 | In spite of her rage with him she admitted that she found him just about perfect to look at . |
| 7 | On Oct. 9 , shortly after appearing before a special tribunal [ see below ] , she accused him of " naked aggression " against the judiciary , and added that she regarded him as her main opponent . |
| 8 | Elisabeth returned Daniel 's caresses and murmured that she loved him . |
| 9 | He intimated that You had him framed . ’ |
| 10 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 11 | He claimed that they lost him money by selling Licence To Kill cheaply to boost company finances , when they were raising cash for a takeover bid . |
| 12 | ‘ She indicated that she found him overbearing . |
| 13 | His face was quite startlingly ugly , but it was also very kind , and she decided that she liked him . |
| 14 | But she had to admit that , realistically , he probably meant that she annoyed him beyond measure and that he was hard put to it to treat her civilly . |
| 15 | And strangely enough she felt that she knew him but that was absurd , she had never seen him before . |
| 16 | She felt that she knew him already . |
| 17 | There was always something comforting about Ben : she felt that she loved him as much as she did Mrs Aggie . |
| 18 | There , as they looked out over the River Thames , he ordered a meal and demanded that she tell him her life story . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew that you loved him . |
| 20 | He knew that she thought him to be a stiff and unimaginative person . |
| 21 | A deep responsive pulse seemed to begin pounding deep in her stomach , and she knew that she wanted him every bit as much as he wanted her , that every fibre of her being was throbbing with the compulsive drive of passionate need and desire . |
| 22 | With her mind and her intellect Shiona knew that she hated him , yet , shamelessly , wantonly , her body still craved him . |
| 23 | She was a reasonable woman , and he knew that she liked him . |
| 24 | ‘ He was going tae go for the barman , ’ Winnie said , ‘ he thought that he insulted him . ’ |
| 25 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 26 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
| 27 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 28 | However , Byatt 's American publishers , Random House , insisted that she make him sexier . |
| 29 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 30 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |