Example sentences of "that he [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said we played far to many domestic games , and that he hoped this disater would be a blessing in disguise . |
| 2 | Arthur Ramsey told his daughter that he chose this colour ‘ because anyone could throw a coffee-cup at the wall without it showing ’ . |
| 3 | Those of you who saw today will know that he calls this position the Adam and Eve position . |
| 4 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |
| 5 | I 'm told that unit sales should normally yield about three times the building costs , and that he gets this back within three to five years . |
| 6 | The alleged motive which John did not dispute was that he committed this crime to conceal another crime being the murder of MOIR McILCHENICH widow in Ellister and we are told that the last mentioned murder of the widow was " discovered " ( probably means committed ) by him and others . |
| 7 | Mr Matthiesen informs me that he relayed this message to Sotheby 's on three separate occasions prior to the sale , but no notice was displayed . |
| 8 | When he completed his circumnavigation of the world , his contemporaries were just as impressed by the fact that he achieved this feat without losing a single member of his crew to scurvy . |
| 9 | Will the Minister recognise that some of the benefits that he announced this afternoon are the result of cross-subsidy from the dirty , sleazy pornographic phone calls that he and his colleagues have encouraged for some time ? |
| 10 | ‘ David did very , very well to get through the Turkey game the way he did and if you were not aware that he had this problem with his knee , you would n't have known it was there . |
| 11 | I told my husband that he had this problem . |
| 12 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 13 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 14 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 15 | One felt that he regarded this task , the task of gaining ‘ spiritual freedom ’ , as the supreme , and never quite realizable , end of the religious life , with which no form of humanism could compete . |
| 16 | The campaign in favour of the name change was led by Anatoly Sobchak , the radical city council leader , and supported mainly by intellectuals and young people ; the head of the Russian Orthodox Church also supported St Petersburg , and Yeltsin too indicated that he favoured this change . |
| 17 | Even within the non-union camp , the British idea of a loose grouping of European states in close association with the United States faced opposition from those who argued for a ‘ third force , essentially a cooperative European security arrangement without American participation : General de Gaulle had already made it clear in 1946 that he favoured this path . |
| 18 | It was in 1985 that he won this championship at Dornoch when nobody expected him to , but this time he could start favourite over what he calls ‘ my own private Shangri La ’ . |
| 19 | The deputé , in a supplementary question , asks what on earth the minister means by ‘ Belgian ’ and demands that he clarify this category which he says he does not recognise . |
| 20 | The sculptor had decided that he wanted this bust to confront the observer . |
| 21 | Lets hope it 's the last one of those type of chances that he missed this season . |