Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually found that the ideal mix was 55 per cent Polled Lincoln Red , 35 per cent Polled Beef Shorthorn ( he had also succeeded in polling the latter ) and 10 per cent Aberdeen Angus , which improved the qualities he desired without reducing size and liveweight gains . |
| 2 | He did , and when he eventually learned that the child 's mother had committed suicide and that out of compassion the rag woman had taken her into her house to save her being put in the workhouse or farmed out , again they both agreed that the rag woman had worthy motives . |
| 3 | He sarcastically suggests that the story was probably invented ‘ to gratify some friends , who would be glad to hear what use can be made , even in point of life and manners , of a microscope ’ . |
| 4 | He bitterly regretted that the knife thrown during the banquet had not hit its target for he had recognised Corbett as a dangerous man . |
| 5 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 6 | He apparently believes that the construction ‘ to recommend that someone does something ’ is more correct than ‘ to recommend that someone do something ’ . |
| 7 | He merely postulated that an educated and skilled worker was more productive than an illiterate and unskilled labourer and that this explained the difference in their wages . |
| 8 | He merely notes that the bad news for technological illiterates is that the world is not as they think it is , and if they are interested in the truth his book will fill some gaps . |
| 9 | He merely maintained that the non-recurrence of the same complexes of qualities was a probability , not a certainty . |
| 10 | On the other hand , he obviously felt that the past exemplified virtues which he admired . |
| 11 | The Commander-in-Chief in 1939 felt it necessary to review his " troops ' ; and when he came to Driffield he obviously felt that the Occasion was so important that he spoke to the officers in one corner of the hangar and spoke to the sergeant pilots in another . |
| 12 | Chapman 's handling of players was based on a calculated appraisal of each man 's temperament , and in Hulme 's case he obviously considered that a sharp rebuff and a spell in the third team would boost his determination to improve his game . |
| 13 | When they reached the Treasury , he obviously decided that the reward was no longer worth the effort and with a valedictory wave disappeared up Parliament Street . |
| 14 | Earlier , however , Mr Maan had said he personally believed that the CRE investigation could damage the CRC 's relationship with the region , and he opposed the decision to start the inquiry . |
| 15 | He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter . |
| 16 | Whether Mick would have proposed this he did not know ; he only knew that the desire had been there ; but it seemed to be the pattern that she and her uncle left together at dinnertime . |
| 17 | But he only said that a little while ago did n't he ? |
| 18 | On 3 August , Roberts and Cross met with Lawrence but he only said that the lorry story was ‘ hearsay ’ . |
| 19 | He only hoped that no one was watching him , as he almost ran down the unlit passage and out of the back door . |
| 20 | He only maintained that the present forms of Church government which the laws of the land had established were such as ‘ No law of God nor reason had proved them to do ill . ’ |
| 21 | He justly observes that the great tenor sang best of all in his homeland . |
| 22 | In his memoirs he rightly insists that the 1980 election ‘ did not represent a revolution in American values . |
| 23 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 24 | His 1932 work had been greeted with great interest and in 1958 he rightly decided that the news from ZETA merited a press conference . |
| 25 | He suddenly realised that the French really did believe that he was here on a secret and delicate diplomatic mission on Edward I 's behalf , that his interest in Alexander III 's death was mere drapery , a trick to conceal his true task . |
| 26 | There was a huge smooth branch very close to where Little Billy was sitting and he suddenly noticed that a small square patch of bark on this branch was beginning to move . |
| 27 | He suddenly realized that the impact of this too-vivid memory had slowed him down and finally arrested him in the middle of the wet pavement Two girls in a shop-doorway were staring at him and giggling . |
| 28 | He suddenly remembered that the Budmouth coast was famous for the number of swimmers drowned there every year , and he began to be afraid that he would soon be one of them . |
| 29 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 30 | He constantly proclaimed that the sons of blacksmiths and grooms made the best veterinary surgeons — a general proposition supported by Percivall in 1842 — although he denied that he ever said surgeons made the worst . |