Example sentences of "he [vb -s] that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an increase of bland courtesy he insists that she stay in the car while he talks to the girl behind the Reception desk . |
| 2 | He insists that she has always had plenty . |
| 3 | He says that she told her husband , they discussed it and decided not to tell the police . |
| 4 | He says that she 's gone on longer than anyone thought , and she 's not even ga-ga ! |
| 5 | Darcy focuses his own feelings on an Eritrean woman , a ‘ splendid bureaucrat ’ now based in Frankfurt but currently visiting the front line to renew her networks of information , and dreams hazily of a future sexual relationship with her until he discovers that she had once undergone , at the hands of the Dergue , such stomach-churning extremes of physical torture that ‘ my distance from such a height of anguish disqualified me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Because he senses that she looks on him with disdain , ’ Lucy informed him . |
| 7 | In the early months of life , according to this view , he learns that she provides food and other bodily comforts , therefore comes to value her presence , and in due course will want her in her own right . |