Example sentences of "he [verb] that what " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he was a brilliant classical scholar , it is possible that he realized that what he had discovered was in line with one of Hippocrates ' systems , formulated so many centuries before . |
| 2 | " Not far now , Hlao-roo , not far now , " he kept muttering , until he realized that what he said had become meaningless , a mere refrain . |
| 3 | Finally , he realized that what he really felt was fear : not for her safety , but fear that she might have gone out of his life . |
| 4 | He realized that what he was about to attempt was fraught with dangers , for Bernice and for himself . |
| 5 | Rex refused to cooperate when he realized that what Minter was really looking for was a scandal — any scandal . |
| 6 | I think he realized that what he might call the party of reason , that 's to say the party of those who do n't see things in terms of ideological shibboleths , but in terms of the long-run interests of humanity , ca n't become a party of action . |
| 7 | The plaintiff , in an action under the Factories Act 1961 , s. 14 , was held to have been 100% contributorily negligent after he admitted that what he had done had been extremely foolish . |
| 8 | While accepting the Comintern classification of Latin American agrarian structures as ‘ feudal ’ or semi-feudal , he maintained that what was happening in Latin America was not that capitalism was superseding feudalism , but rather that the two systems tended to coexist . |
| 9 | ‘ He accepts that what took place was against the will of the girl and that he must take the consequences . ’ |
| 10 | To his surprise , he discovered that what was needed to make a powerful political speech was not the same gift as that which was needed to make a powerful sermon . |
| 11 | But he repeated that what Iran needed was " an honest first-class Army with a decent standard of living . |
| 12 | I think that at the end of his life he thought that what he knew was lost for ever . |
| 13 | The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know . |
| 14 | He felt the teacher 's rostrum to be his fit place ; the place where he knew that what he had to offer was valued . |
| 15 | Karajan would give that fantasist all the freedom he needed because he knew that what appeals to an audience is something arising out of the immediate performance , out of something that is happening within the mind of the musician at that moment . |
| 16 | He knew that what he was communicating was urgency , irritability , frustrated life and fury , wrong things here , and indeed Mrs Marriott began hopelessly , her head in a pile of clean muslin nappies , to cry . |
| 17 | He knew that what he was seeing meant jobs for Cork , wage-packets for its workers , money for its shopkeepers , business for its tradesmen ; but , more than that , more even than the commerce that would result on a national scale , he saw it as history in action . |
| 18 | He knew that what he was feeling did n't have much to do with his brush with death . |
| 19 | He knew that it 's a sin against himself , his own soul , he knew that what he was doing was against justice , it was against the advice of his wife , it was against everything within him and yet he still pursues this , this cause of having Jesus put to death . |
| 20 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 21 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 22 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 23 | He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people . |
| 24 | He said that what the Faculty was proposing was really none of the IoT 's business and he objected strongly to its interference . |
| 25 | hon. Member for Blaby blurted out the truth on television on Sunday when he said that what the Government were aiming for was ’ what the Conservative party would accept . ’ |
| 26 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 27 | He was not a fool and he recognized that what came out when Therese opened her mouth was a unique sound that could , if she had continued in her youthful career , have taken her right up to the top , to the international opera houses of the world . |
| 28 | However , the court held that the accused does not have this exception when he knows that what he proposes to do is a crime . |
| 29 | He knew nothing about Situationism , and cared even less ; but he suspected that what McLaren wanted to do was force Virgin , just as he had forced EMI and A&M , to drop them — and pay the appropriate price . |
| 30 | This was specifically endorsed by Lord Pearce in Esso where he explained that what Lord MacNaghten meant was that the adequacy of consideration was a key to oppression and that oppression is a key to reasonableness . |