Example sentences of "fact [conj] [pron] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that nobody noticed him , let alone the flowers , did not give him ease of conscience , but that was what he sought . |
| 2 | Jenna was a bit surprised that Alain knew this man and the fact that he knew him was n't making him any more gracious , either . |
| 3 | perhaps the truth is that in the field of economic policy , Keynes 's preference for a managed economy aligned him with the new Liberals : hence the handsome tribute he paid to J. A. Hobson , in spite of the fact that he regarded him as mistaken . |
| 4 | It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel . |
| 5 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |
| 6 | ‘ And , of course , there was the fact that you wanted him . ’ |
| 7 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 8 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 9 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 10 | Once more they could reveal themselves to each other — not just physically , because with every gesture she made she knew she would reveal the one thing he must never know — the fact that she loved him . |
| 11 | Never must she put herself in a position where she might be tempted to betray the fact that she loved him . |
| 12 | At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect . |
| 13 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 14 | It certainly did n't change the fact that she disliked him intensely . |