Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [verb] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so taken aback by the poverty of the Tanzanian secondary school that he determined to do something about it when he returned to his own school , St Aloysius College in Glasgow . |
| 2 | It was just possible that he 'd discovered something about Puddephat . |
| 3 | Outside , the guard shook his head at the antics of the scientists , disturbed only by the niggling sensation that he 'd overlooked something . |
| 4 | He stood almost immediately , and only Bernice noticed that , by aiming a bony finger at the floor , he was covering the fact that he 'd pocketed something . |
| 5 | Even now he could n't stop himself from making a comic routine out of it : looking at his fingers , his face screwed up in disgust , pretending that he 'd found something unspeakably revolting in the depths of his pocket . |
| 6 | He absorbed another spoonful of nursery food , thinking that he had said something rather good which could be used in next week 's article . |
| 7 | But all that had really happened that evening , he thought , was that he had developed something that was very nearly envy of Dave Fernie . |
| 8 | If he could confront physical danger and win he could go to bed feeling that he had achieved something with his day . |
| 9 | Indeed , the vaguer the linkage , the greater would be his need , after withdrawal , to show that he had achieved something real . |
| 10 | Nicholas knew that he had to do something , but he was not sure what . |
| 11 | A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help . |
| 12 | He glanced at the clock and had a strange feeling that he had to do something — there was somewhere he ought to be . |
| 13 | For a moment he thought that he had felt something , an infinitesimal trembling of the earth . |
| 14 | Everything David had shown her of himself had made her love him and yet she believed that he had done something unspeakable . |
| 15 | For the rest of the day he could hardly concentrate on any problem , caught between contrition that he had done something wrong in inviting Benedicta and pleasure that she had so readily accepted . |
| 16 | Gary again started to pray about YWAM as he recognised that he had lost something — perhaps his original vision was wrong . |
| 17 | And he was tormented by the idea , by the conviction , that he had missed something . |
| 18 | But it seemed that he had sparked something off . |
| 19 | Clive heard the fountain , and knew that he had torn something important . |
| 20 | Could it be that he did feel something other than sexual desire for her ? |
| 21 | ‘ Well , he said that he wanted to do something useful with his life , seeing that it had been given back to him when he had n't expected it . |
| 22 | He was once so alone that he needed to do something extraordinary in order to bring attention to himself . |