Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] that he " in BNC.

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1 I could take it and Barry knew that I knew that he knew I could take it .
2 It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own .
3 By that I mean that he considers schematic ways of making measurements , set up in accord with the rules of the theory , and sees if by any ingenious means he can circumvent a restriction like that imposed by equation [ 2 ] .
4 I replied with caution and a slightly playful evasion that I understood that he would decide that , to which he replied that naturally he would like to take into account any hopes of mine .
5 The writer remarked that he had ‘ never doubted but that he had succeeded in his place by a commission from the Treasury untill of late that I discovered that he only officiated by orders and an interim warrand from the Commissioners of Customs ’ .
6 I have said that I think that he might and they have all said that of course he will not ; he dare not , they say , there is no way that he will put up interest rates this side of the general election .
7 He helped her to her feet , anxiously dusting her coat , apologizing , undistressed , so courteous and unconfused that she felt that he had conferred upon her a favour , and to her amazement she heard her own voice answering , with equal , answering ease , assuring him that no , she was not hurt , no , of course it was not his fault , yes , it certainly was the roughest she had ever known it .
8 She was so furious that she forgot that he had first asked for her trust .
9 what 's happened , but it does say in it that at the beginning that you assume that he is a youth because he 's got , come from university , but when he 's in the graveyard the fellow , it , it comes out that he 's thirty is n't he ?
10 Byng did not chronicle his earlier travels ; it is from the diary of William Windham [ q.v. ] that we learn that he and Byng toured the midlands and north in 1774 .
11 However , they have underestimated Tamburlaine to the extent that they believe that he will always be a ‘ sturdy scythian thief ’ and that he will never change .
12 and we 've , we 've alleged in the pleading that he made that he would have suffered erm either all or some part of loses would of been avoided , but that depends upon the facts and we 're
13 At the time he told his son that he thought that he had made a discovery which would prove comparable in importance with those of Newton .
14 It was unlikely that he thought that he would be beaten .
15 The defendant contended that he thought that he was a good enough shot to hit only the bottles .
16 What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk .
17 This simply means that he felt that he was doing one thing when , in fact , he was really doing the opposite .
18 Although he was still away fairly often , visiting the mills in Leeds and Bradford which provided the bulk of his income , he was more relaxed now that he felt that he was mastering the intricacies of the various businesses which had been allowed to slip into low productivity during his father 's ill-health .
19 He asked me to take a message to the Blackpool Conference conveying to the delegates that he felt that he could not lead the Party at the General Election , and inviting those whose business it was to do so , to take soundings about the future leadership .
20 He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch .
21 The timing of the RPF 's creation was so unpropitious and the concept of a Gaullist " party " so problematic even to de Gaulle that one must assume that he felt that he had no real choice .
22 A man who tells every woman that he meets that he is in love with her ? ’
23 It is true that he says that he has checked " difficult readings " against the Oxford text ( p. 9 ) .
24 He also says that he fears that he and his family , as members of the Bengali community , would be in danger of racial harassment if they lived in Carradale House , and this he supports with an affidavit on the subject of such harassment sworn by a former employee of his solicitors .
25 It was only by craning his neck to a painful degree that he saw that he was suspended in mid-air , a foot or so above the sea .
26 Hennessy moved in closer now that he knew that he was n't placing communication at risk .
27 Some good thing had been voiced , and Wilde had remarked that he wished that he had said it — and was then told : .
28 It was only when it shut with a rusty creak that he realized that he had company .
29 Is the Secretary of State so arrogant that he thinks that he knows better than the people who are actively involved in the care of the mentally handicapped ?
30 If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’
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