Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was always so quick witted and courageous was John that I always thought he would have made a good secret agent — a James Bond kind of figure . |
| 2 | She told him that she firmly believed he was missing an experience to be treasured . |
| 3 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 4 | You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ? |
| 5 | He discovered in the weeks and months that passed a real passion ; a task that was not only deeply therapeutic , but one that he also found he could do rather well . |
| 6 | Rice explains that he simply felt he was " no longer contributing anything " to the company . |
| 7 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that he did n't murder that other apprentice — that he only said he did , to frighten you ? ’ |
| 8 | I remember the editor of ITN saying at a meeting in the 1960s that he sometimes wished he could precede every bulletin with : ‘ Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world went about their lives today without anything unusual happening to them . |
| 9 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 10 | After a few false starts a whole vocabulary and syntax that he never knew he knew begins to well up from his old-fashioned black portable . |
| 11 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |