Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Gillis had stuck a plastic hook near the top of this door on the inside and it was here that he chose to hang his white trilby . |
| 3 | However , it was on financial policies that he chose to oppose his senior colleague , the lord treasurer Thomas Osborne , first Earl of Danby [ q.v. ] , and in May 1676 he was dismissed , losing his pension in 1678 and his place in the council in 1679 . |
| 4 | And it was as crime stories , mystery puzzles , that he chose to embody his way of commenting on the follies of mankind . |
| 5 | These things he barely understood , and lacking anybody to talk to , it was at lunchtime sitting before an eagle whose name he did not know was Minch that he began to see his way towards them . |
| 6 | It was at this point that he began to realize what a very bizarre and difficult case he had fallen into . |
| 7 | It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away . |
| 8 | Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil . |
| 9 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 10 | It was whilst at Manchester University studying for his BSc in construction management that he began to take his lifelong hobby a little more seriously and started to enter competitions . |
| 11 | I recently heard Alan Bennett talking about the humour in his plays and he said that he began to develop his ear for the ridiculous simply by listening to members of his family . |
| 12 | ‘ Edwin was always a joker but the point was that he seemed to undervalue his own work and to think less of my judgement because I did not . |
| 13 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 14 | You may wonder why it is reported that He seemed to resent them , which may suggest that he was unable to express his own resentment , which may limit your range of potential interpretations of the expression He . |
| 15 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 16 | " Perhaps you know that he came to see us ? " |
| 17 | It seemed that he came to associate his love affair with me with the one Meaulnes had with Valentine — and Meaulnes 's resultant guilt and loss of purity . |
| 18 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 19 | Even Brando became so concerned over Clift 's drinking that he went to see him to try to persuade him to join AA . |
| 20 | During the eight short months that he lived following his resignation , he was plagued by a sense of foreboding that the future would hold a similar fate for himself . |
| 21 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 22 | It has never been doubted by the Tanzanian public that his aims were genuine , nor been considered that he sought to enrich himself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Gavriil Popov , a leading campaigner for democratic reform , who had been popularly elected as mayor of Moscow in June 1991 and who had threatened to resign in December 1991 , resigned on June 5 , saying that he wished to devote himself to leading the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms ( an offshoot of the Movement for Democratic Reforms ) . |
| 25 | Dad and I went in and Mr Vulcan explained that he wished to give me the harmonium and that there was a clean bed upstairs if we wanted it . |
| 26 | The most notable absentee , of course , was former captain Vivian Richards , who had made it clear that he wished to end his career in the World Cup where , in the previous four tournaments , he was the only batsman to exceed a career total of 1000 runs . |
| 27 | When God the Father announced that He wished to marry her , she would have preferred the Manhood of Christ ; nevertheless , she was married to the Father in the presence of the Son , the Holy Ghost , the Virgin , the Twelve Apostles , St Katharine , St Paul , and numerous other saints and virgins . |
| 28 | In 1465 he wrote that he wished to have his doublet made of worsted ‘ for the worship of Norfolk ’ ( 17 , iv , 188 ) . |
| 29 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 30 | Dolly said one had got in , that he threatened to do her in if she did n't tell him where all the valuables were . |