Example sentences of "that [pron] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His range of roles has crossed many more adventurous and challenging boundaries , from the devil himself through to perhaps his now most famous portrayal of The Joker in Batman and when Nicholson insists that everything he does on screen is in some way autobiographical , delves into what makes him tick find contradictions and confusion at almost every turn . |
| 2 | Secondly , it has a very chastening effect on the inspector who knows that everything he says in his report is liable to be critically examined by a review board and , if necessary , corrected for all to see — and this at the whim of those whose actions he is criticising . |
| 3 | I think we said to you on Friday erm both me and Roger actually said that he he went into er he went in for the kill and he c he came out with slaughter |
| 4 | He noted that the Education Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , had also been invited to attend , adding : ‘ I have been led to believe that what he lacks in understanding he makes up for in bravery . ’ |
| 5 | Erm it may be that what he said in court was purely bluff . |
| 6 | Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't . |
| 7 | Useless at the moment to try to touch her , to convince her that what he felt for her was love and a pity so enormous that it was almost unmanning him . |
| 8 | He had once heard an Englishman say that what he knew of nuclear physics could be written on the back of a blackcurrant . |
| 9 | I always thought that what he lacked in defensive qualities he made up for in attacking qualities . |
| 10 | And yet I would n't dismiss out of hand Auden 's claim that what he says of our family life holds as true of Coronation Street as of Lowndes Square . |
| 11 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 12 | In 1694 Jean Gailhard wrote a pamphlet urging that the annual commemoration of 30 January and 29 May be stopped , arguing that the sermons delivered on that day helped perpetuate the country 's political divisions , though it is clear that what he objected to was the fact that these days helped promote a Tory vision of government in Church and State , since he himself did not believe anything done during the reigns of Charles I or Charles II was worth commemorating . |
| 13 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 14 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 15 | Place was further of the opinion that what he described for London went for the country as a whole . |
| 16 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 17 | But she could n't , and a moment later she was asking herself what on earth had got into her that whatever he thought of her should bother her ! |
| 18 | He brought with him into the Treasury few old prejudices beyond the self-confidence of his conviction that whatever he believed in at a particular time was right . |
| 19 | It is thus quite clear that whatever he said about Shakespeare 's plays , Tolkien read some of them with keen attention : most of all , Macbeth . |
| 20 | He had early and with total certainty come to the conclusion that whatever he had as an actor was beyond his comprehension . |