Example sentences of "that he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Guitarist I was just reading Joe Satriani 's article in your mag and found that he suffered the same as myself regarding the tremolo unit on his Ibanez . |
| 2 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 3 | Graham Greene , for example , said that he wrote The Confidential Agent in record time under the influence of benzedrine . |
| 4 | It will have been in this connection that he wrote the discarded pieces " On music and words " , which largely rework part " of " The Dionysiac Philosophy " of the previous year , but whose copious references to Schopenhauer , opera and Beethoven 's Choral Symphony relate directly to one side of the Wagner problem , though without any explicit stress on that fact . " |
| 5 | It is likely , however , that he heard the loud knock on the door which heralded the entry of a rather harassed-looking Lewis . |
| 6 | It was a Saturday morning , after Charlie had collected his produce from the market and was on his way back to Whitechapel , that he heard the raucous cry . |
| 7 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 8 | Anfield 's record-breaking striker is certain that neither Blackburn Rovers ' financial clout nor their present League position can ever console the Scot that he made the right decision on that dramatic day in February 1991 . |
| 9 | History has shown that he made the right choice . |
| 10 | France 's Algerian policy was his policy , not only in the sense that he made the critical decisions about when and how to launch an initiative or offer a concession , but because he personified the policy . |
| 11 | Two days later , Coningham replied that he thought the irregular treatment of the Broad Sanctuary houses stemmed from ‘ no other motive than the architect 's wish for the picturesque ’ . |
| 12 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 13 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 14 | In a private conversation with Salas Pombo after the National Council speech , Franco admitted that he thought the Falangist ideology outmoded . |
| 15 | His writings , particularly his Homilies on Ezechiel , composed while he was pope , show that he thought the contemplative life of monks would be best validated if it bore fruit in action . |
| 16 | In Manders v. Williams , brewers supplied porter in casks to a publican on condition that he returned the empty casks ; held , they could maintain trover against a sheriff who took the casks in execution for the publican 's debts , for directly they were emptied the right to immediate possession was in the brewers , the publican becoming a mere bailee at will . |
| 17 | Rev Eric Shegog , Director of Communication for the Church of England , said that he hoped the working party would be able to report back in the autumn of 1992 . |
| 18 | it was for men that he felt the hot , flushing , roused attraction which a man is supposed to feel for the other sex … the male physique had a fascination for him , and for the female physique he felt only a fondness … |
| 19 | ‘ I mean — ’ Biff 's tongue was loosening now that he felt the pleasant glow of heat at the back of his skull . |
| 20 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 21 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 22 | Alfonso , on the other hand , though go-ahead and energetic , was of a docile nature and readily deferred to his parents and his eldest sister Urraca , so that he became the favourite son and developed all the traits of a spoilt child . |
| 23 | It took hours and it was not until the late afternoon that he began the final copy . |
| 24 | It was there , he said , that he acquired the three enthusiasms of his life — politics , religion , and books . |
| 25 | In the locker room — no ordinary changing room this , but a soft paradise of fluffy towels , hairdryers , lotions , masseurs , electronic scales , isometric drinks , cardio-vascular scans and congratulatory attendants — he told a well-known ( everyone in this club is said to be well-known ) producer that he took the first three games off me in each set . |
| 26 | Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises . |
| 27 | Jim was so upset that he sold the burgundy car — and transferred the number plate to the Rolls . |
| 28 | In fairness to Keith , he realised very quickly that he lacked the requisite qualities and threw in the towel . |
| 29 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 30 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |