Example sentences of "that he [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I understand that he made it complete . ’ |
| 3 | But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse . |
| 4 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 5 | In spite of his plans , as late as January 1938 Hitler told Colonel Beck that he considered the Danzig arrangements binding , that he thought it possible to accommodate Poland and that he had no territorial claims to make . |
| 6 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 7 | When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out . |
| 8 | Not that he plays them all that well , ’ he admitted , thoughtfully watching the harried youngster trying to be as tall as his tallest and most formidable charge . |
| 9 | Libion , the kindly café proprietor , was so exasperated that he had them all thrown out . |
| 10 | The nature of his art hardly allows the sculptor to reject the baser elements so explicitly , but I think we shall see that he makes it clear in his own way that he does so . |
| 11 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |
| 12 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 13 | Anyway , there is no hint that he gave her any encouragement at all . |
| 14 | Not that he found them conflicting , still less was he offering a comparative mythology . |
| 15 | We also have the comments of his tutor , Ian Duthie , on the piece , which shows that he found it curious , too . |
| 16 | Bromley Challener said that he found it inconceivable , nay incomprehensible that so many local people could stand by and watch two courageous policemen set upon by rogues , and do nothing while these same officers received such grievous wounds that one had since died and the other would be incapacitated for months to come . |
| 17 | I looked at his face , which was something I did seldom , for I did n't like it , and saw that he did n't believe me ; that he found it inconceivable that I should n't love him ; that , ageing and unmarried though he was , he believed himself to be irresistible . |
| 18 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 19 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 20 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |
| 21 | He began to feel more comfortable after 24 hours ' treatment with antibiotics and also admitted that he found it easier to pass urine in the privacy of the toilet than he did in the ward . |
| 22 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |
| 23 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 24 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |
| 25 | You knew perfectly well that he held me responsible for Eddie 's death as well as other things ! ’ |
| 26 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 27 | I do n't know what his name was , but I was only a little kid like , you know We , we sung that He give us half a crown each , He said do you know on , on the I said oh yes . |
| 28 | Now , having met Madeleine again , he knew that he loved them both ! |
| 29 | His breath ragged , his eyes near wild , he stared at her , and it came to him then that he wanted it all : the house , the money , and Theda , too . |
| 30 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |