Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a final interview with Miss Havisham , and forgives her the wrong she has done him in leading him on to believe that she was his benefactor . |
| 2 | Uncorrected homework will create a negative attitude in the student , leading him eventually to believe that the teacher is not really interested in his progress . |
| 3 | Presumably I did hear him right saying that Labour 's spending plans were predicated on assumptions about Labour 's ability to produce economic growth . |
| 4 | It did n't take him long to realize that one less headache was getting rid of me . |
| 5 | It not take him long to realize that if the police wanted someone to carry the can , then Dirk Coetzee was heading for death row . |
| 6 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
| 7 | Finally she called him only to find that he was not in his apartment at Buckingham Palace . |
| 8 | There the evidence before him merely disclosed that the defendants whilst being employed by the plaintiffs simply made plans or preparations for their future post termination activities . |
| 9 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
| 10 | Moll 's denunciation of Laxton before she beats him up shows that the thrashing is partly in revenge for his not untypical masculine blend of misogyny and licentiousness ( cf. ii . |
| 11 | Poor old d'Urfé ; I had used him before to suggest that centuries of high culture lay in my blood . |
| 12 | But those who know him well say that Sir Patrick 's tact and political skills will disarm his critics and persuade them to work with him . |
| 13 | She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness . |
| 14 | Their leader , whose own origins were inauspicious humanly speaking , was going to die a pretty ignoble death , but those who had gathered around him subsequently discovered that there were depths to experience and power that words can hardly explain . |
| 15 | He rather hoped that Eleanor would say this , even though other girls had n't . |
| 16 | On reflection , he rather regrets that they were n't looking out for each other . |
| 17 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 18 | Believing our intellectual abilities to be God-given , he presumably thought that , had they not been sufficient for our needs , God would not have supplemented them by innately endowing us with anything other than truth . |
| 19 | When Paine stated that a governmental act contrary to the constitution is an act of ‘ power without right ’ , did he thereby imply that such an act would be unconstitutional ? |
| 20 | We learn that he has not only killed his brother-in-law for opposing the Iranian government but that he unrepentantly believes that ‘ war is the source of love and hope and satisfaction . ’ |
| 21 | When he had sex , he secretly fantasised that he was the woman but even that was confusing because the concept of being with a man repulsed him . |
| 22 | Mr Gorbachev pleased his grinning hosts in East Berlin when he politely remarked that whatever affected the future of the GDR would be decided in Berlin . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 25 | He eventually suggested that Orkney had used Highland Region 's guidelines , but the procedures used did not , in fact , comply with even these guidelines . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | His failure before the English courts led him directly to Strasburg where he successfully claimed that his rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated . |
| 29 | Indeed , although Hegel does not admit quite what I am now suggesting , he effectively concedes that , given the difference between the sexes , unity between them is impossible . |
| 30 | When Paul denies that God is an idol in a shrine , he effectively denies that God is anywhere else too . |