Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , he failed to recognise that it was the same as red iron ore , an abundant and in expensive material , Instead , he thought it was scarce — and consequently expensive — being obtainable only from a particular treatment of iron itself . |
| 2 | He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people . |
| 3 | He 'd bought a BMW because he 'd heard that it was the car to have , and would n't admit that he felt uncomfortable in it . |
| 4 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 5 | Then he 'd realized that it was no-one he would recognize . |
| 6 | he 'd realized that it was my birthday , and wha , what did I want ? |
| 7 | He 'd thought that it was a nickname , that it meant nothing special , and they 'd let him go on thinking that way until he 'd found out different . |
| 8 | He 'd thought that it was just the calendar which had been turned to the correct month , but something else had been changed too . |
| 9 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 10 | Early in his career , he used the ‘ age-regression ’ technique to uncover traumatic childhood events which he felt lay at the root of his patient 's distress , but he came to realise that it was highly unlikely that all Viennese children were sexually molested by their parents even though nearly all his patients , when under hypnosis vividly described such encounters . |
| 11 | Later , however , he came to realize that it was more accurate for him to say Truth is God than it was to say God is Truth . |
| 12 | Under this enforced regimen of quiet and rest , he came to understand that it was necessary for him to retire a little from the active life in which he had previously been engaged ; he told William Turner Levy that he would have to learn to concentrate his time and energy upon his real work . |
| 13 | But of course the minister in his speech earlier went far wider than that er he seemed to imply that it was n't just er th er duty on the accountant er acting in capa his capacity as an auditor but er the the accountant would have the same duty if acting as an accountant , tax advisor or indeed in any other capacity . |
| 14 | Even if he comes by it innocently , nevertheless once he gets to know that it was originally given in confidence , he can be restrained from breaking that confidence . |
| 15 | He began to realize that it was distinct from heat , electricity or magnetism , and gradually became able to describe its properties , which were very similar to those of ‘ animal magnetism ’ . |
| 16 | And as for Steiner 's suggestion that the West lays waste to the natural world , can he have forgotten that it was the Soviet Union that brought us Chernobyl ? |
| 17 | This circumstance encourages me to hope that you may , if you have any opening for such a youth , be willing to take George , who is exceedingly desirous of obtaining the situation — or indeed any situation which through industry and a desire of improvement may hereafter insure a creditable independence ; but , above all things he seems to wish that it may be possible for you to take him into a situation similar to that which was offered to his Brother . |
| 18 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 19 | Though Eliot did not like Lindsay 's work , he did think that it might have paved the way for better things . |
| 20 | Chatterton thought this event had occurred on the afternoon of the tenth of January , although he did concede that it might have been the eleventh . |
| 21 | And he had to confess that it was years since he had had such notions . |
| 22 | He had heard that it was possible to get fresh tap water outside Asano Park . |
| 23 | He had bought a bunch of parsley on his way in , because he had heard that it clears away the smell of alcohol . |
| 24 | It was D'Arcy who raised the subject of The Criterion , because he had heard that it was in difficulties . |
| 25 | He had no intention of ‘ Gothicizing ’ the neighbouring buildings , and he was not going to demolish the State Paper Office for this reason , as Palmerston had implied , although like the other competitors he had assumed that it would be removed . |
| 26 | At first he had assumed that it must be Siban , baulked from attaining the Dragon Throne , who had hoped to govern the realm through the medium of his son . |
| 27 | At first he had assumed that it was taking much longer than the boy had estimated or that his work on the Project was taking up his time , but this explained it all . |
| 28 | Last week he had hinted that it might be better to get an agreement by the time of the next European Parliament elections in June 1994 . |
| 29 | He had hinted that it might be kind to pass the empty bottle of Scotch over when he 'd drunk it . |
| 30 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |