Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 2 | Would not my right hon. Friend be insulting British farmers if he were to suggest that he should decimate the financial support available to them so that it could be given to M. Delors for use as a slush fund for so-called cohesion — a bribe to the countries of southern Europe ? |
| 3 | The assumption is about what lies behind our saying of a man , when he comes out with the sounds , ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ , that he is asserting that he is going to the bank , but our not saying this of the parrot . |
| 4 | Now he is proving that he can do it here with 55-yard boundaries , and when he is batting with Paul Parker , another incredibly fast man between the wickets , it is going to be very difficult for sides to control them . ’ |
| 5 | For the purpose of answering the second part of the question he should state that he is assuming that he is wrong in his answer to the first . |
| 6 | He is promised that he will enjoy Helen , but only in death : |
| 7 | or even if he , even if he is doing that he 's not gon na , he 's not gon na |
| 8 | He is saying that he is not in favour of NATO 's present policy of maintaining adequate sub-strategic forces based in Europe and of ensuring that they are maintained and kept up to date . |
| 9 | Now he is saying that he killed Caesar for his greater love of Rome than for Caesar ie he killed Caesar for the ‘ general good ’ . |
| 10 | He knew that he ought to see a physician , but was unwilling to do so lest he be told that he was not , after all , cured of syphilis . |
| 11 | Steve Goodwin is The Drummer From Cud and he 's pretending that he thinks it 's a really cool joke ha ha ha that both he and the band he loves have become a synonym for wanky indie crap . |
| 12 | He says he 's shown that he has adapted to a lack of Oxygen . |
| 13 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 14 | I thought , ‘ He is peculiar , he 's forgotten that he 's paying me £30 a year to obey his orders , ’ and I said , ‘ Not many masters bother to ask if their servants are offended by their orders . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He 's proved that he is capable of scoring goals and although he can improve on the defensive side of his game his passing skills are a tremendous asset . ’ |
| 16 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 17 | Mohammed Mansha , of Croydon Road , Middlesbrough , said : ‘ He was shouting that he was going to kill . |
| 18 | While the reports that IAK sent for the official files expressed no doubt at all , by Thursday he was complaining that he could hardly get the prisoner to mention politics , let alone discuss them . |
| 19 | Oddly , as foreign secretary , Major asked his old school , Rutlish Grammar , to deposit his records in Surrey county archives and keep them secret ; later , as Prime Minister , he was to claim that he could not remember how many O levels he had . |
| 20 | He was assured that he would hear in a few days . |
| 21 | Well , Peter 's getting close to retirement , and he was hinting that he 'd like to sell out . |
| 22 | On 30 April , after a number of interviews , at the outset of which he was no doubt cautioned , he was charged that he : |
| 23 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |
| 24 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |
| 25 | He was warned that he would not be so lucky the next time . |
| 26 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 27 | Because of his debt to his followers , Franco knew that a certain free play had to be allowed within the regime , but he was determined that he alone would control its limits and what was permissible within them . |
| 28 | It was to tell the head of state to whom he was accredited that he ought to leave the country . |
| 29 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 30 | But he was told that he would have to pay rent for the land until the end of time , so he gave up the idea . |