Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | My daughter 's husband has confessed to her that he has a male lover . |
| 2 | And that morning 's takings had trebled and brought her new custom , for he had always seen to it that he was shod well and had good small clothes and shirts . |
| 3 | Unless , of course , they had not wanted him to know , and had seen to it that he had no address for them . |
| 4 | ( vii ) In every case it is made clear to the prisoner from the information supplied to him that he may not be recommended for release at the end of his tariff period at the first or any subsequent review . |
| 5 | However , the side 's leading bowler flatly refutes the story attributed to him that he physically coerced an umpire into granting an lbw decision during a match involving the Maharajah of Patiala . |
| 6 | but it was told to me that he dreamt it |
| 7 | It was true she 'd avoided him , had gladly left him to Merry , but it had n't occurred to her that he might be aware of that . |
| 8 | It had never occurred to her that he came from the sort of background where servants were a matter of course and all one had to do in order to eat was pull a bell . |
| 9 | It had never occurred to her that he 'd have been on his way to bed . |
| 10 | It had suddenly occurred to him that he might have underestimated Gazzer : he remembered that unexpected defiance , last night , on the Wheel . |
| 11 | He never lifted whole sections of design from antique buildings as Wilkins did , and as some architects are doing again in our own day , or squeezed his buildings into medieval or Jacobean plan forms : it would never have occurred to him that he should . |
| 12 | On the way it had occurred to him that he might find the police at Adam 's . |
| 13 | It had not occurred to him that he could stand up in the pub , leave the beer half-drunk , the sandwich half-eaten , walk out into the London early evening . |
| 14 | It had not occurred to him that he might seem rather out of place in his present dress . |
| 15 | Liking Julia as he did , admiring her stringent intelligence , her honesty , the unexpected humility that would never let her give advice unless she was asked for it , and her unfailing reasonableness , it had never occurred to him that he might be falling in love with her . |
| 16 | It had not occurred to him that he was naked , but it did not matter in any case what she thought . |
| 17 | Rune had already demonstrated to her that he was far from cold-blooded . |
| 18 | ‘ You will have demonstrated that you are his servant , for by removing yourself from the court at such a crucial hour you will have proved to him that he was right to trust you . ’ |
| 19 | He could not be bothered to read anything longer than a single sheet of paper , and even that with great difficulty , and got so bored when any detail was explained to him that he often fell asleep . |
| 20 | A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education . |
| 21 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 22 | Guy caught his breath all over again , so captivated by the sweet face upturned to him that he missed the strangely puzzled wonderment in her wide-eyed gaze , his own eyes tracing features drawn with exquisite delicacy , though her gently flushed cheeks still retained the rounded curves of youth . |
| 23 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 24 | A visitor to the village just after the war once remarked to me that he was amazed at the interest and knowledge of the local men on the subject of horse racing , as we had no race course . |
| 25 | Its owner admitted to us that he 'd spent the Cullifords and other people 's insurance premiums paying off company debts , but insisted he was trying to get their money back . |
| 26 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might , even more implausibly , say : ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 27 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience other people 's pain , he might say , ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 28 | Ross had previously noticed that Minton seemed slightly uneasy on his own , ‘ as if questions might be put to him that he preferred not to consider ’ , and liked better the easy banter encouraged by the presence of a crowd . |
| 29 | Mr Heseltine has confirmed to us that he is going to talk to the Chancellor on this matter , and I believe he has done so ’ . |
| 30 | Indeed , a business manager involved in trying to develop a portfolio analysis of SBUs recently stated to me that he knew that assessing the profitability of the different SBUs was a key step in determining market attractiveness , but he did not know which accounting concept was correct . |