Example sentences of "and [that] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 2 | By September 1938 it was clear that Carl Burckhardt , the Swiss League of Nations High Commissioner , was not prepared to do anything to prevent the drive to Nazify the city , and that he saw his position to be that of ‘ observer ’ or , at most , intermediary . |
| 3 | The authors argue that this too was an act of desperation , not part of a grand design ; and that he construed his famous interview with the American ambassador , April Glaspie , as a ‘ green light ’ . |
| 4 | The tradition referred to earlier that a surgeon had been required for the Empress , maintains that Garvine had to diagnose her illness without being allowed into her presence and that he treated her successfully . |
| 5 | I believe he continued to treat her long after he needed to , that he misled her into believing such treatment was necessary and that he faked his file notes accordingly . ’ |
| 6 | I saw that he probably encountered his own body as worthless and warped and that he identified his body as his self , but he was wrong . |
| 7 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 8 | " I remember that year Jimmy telling us that we had black players in South Africa , that they were reasonably good and that he thought they should have the chance to become members , " Bland explained . |
| 9 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 10 | Remembering my conversations with him at the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976 , it was clear that he wanted fresh fields to conquer , that he thought he had more than proved himself as a racing driver and that he thought he could , with no great difficulty , follow a Bruce McLaren , for instance , and make his own way in cars of his own . |
| 11 | Interviewed by police Paterson said he and Bailey had gone to investigate a broken window at the hangar and that he knew nothing about how the fire started . |
| 12 | Although she did not look at Jake , she could feel he was watching her and that he knew what had stopped her dead in her tracks . |
| 13 | By demurring to that plea , the plaintiff admits that he had no cause of action against the defendant in the action therein mentioned , and that he knew it . |
| 14 | But would n't you feel a lot better if you knew that you 'd kicked him back — and that he knew it too ? |
| 15 | what he has said is that he , it 's a matter for myself to talk to whoever I wish , and that he respects my judgement in these matters , er according to the joint statement issued Mr Reynolds briefed him on his discussions with me on that on that |
| 16 | Doreen looked down at her hands , then admitted reluctantly , ‘ If you must know — he told Jean he likes Lucy , and that he hopes she will never leave this place . |
| 17 | If pressed , most of us would say that he deepened our understanding of human nature , and that he made us aware that the mind of Man is complex and contradictory . |
| 18 | We may find that the writer was completely biased in his views and that he falsified his evidence , in which case he is a perjurer and we should hold him in contempt . |
| 19 | He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake . |
| 20 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 21 | He remembers Mr Lamont using a gold Access card and that he signed his name simply Norman Lamont . |
| 22 | He said cos I used to keep the house tidy he said I 've been the in the army June an he said I can I can run a household he said but we and then working the shifts I do he said and go up the horses and that he said I just do n't get time to do it ! |
| 23 | Vaudier also said that his position as an opposition deputy had been " extremely serious and humiliating " and that he had himself been arrested and held for two days . |
| 24 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 25 | I said that I accepted that maybe he hated me and that he wanted nothing to do with me . |
| 26 | Yes , Arnold Thomas had done a bad thing in deserting him just when he needed him most , and he had been a rogue of the worst kind to have stolen money into the bargain ; but if he could only find his son , he would tell him that all was forgiven , and that he wanted him here , in his rightful place , at the helm of his father 's business . |
| 27 | She remembered her thoughts as he told her he was as shocked as her , and that he wanted it to continue … her heart skipped beats frantically . |
| 28 | He told her that he was well and that he missed her a lot . |
| 29 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 30 | And that he bequeathed his carp pond to the local Boy Scouts ? |