Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He rather hoped that Eleanor would say this , even though other girls had n't . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He eventually suggested that Orkney had used Highland Region 's guidelines , but the procedures used did not , in fact , comply with even these guidelines . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He bitterly regretted that the knife thrown during the banquet had not hit its target for he had recognised Corbett as a dangerous man . |
| 10 | He swiftly decided that it would be better for the Elves to have these people as allies rather than enemies . |
| 11 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 12 | He apparently promised that attendees at next year 's meeting would find themselves sitting next to representatives from DEC , HP , IBM and other Open Software Foundation partners . |
| 13 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He refused to comment on whether his organisation was carrying out the interviewing or ‘ disclosure ’ work on the children ; , he merely reiterated that they were involved in offering their assistance in whatever way was required by the department who had contracted them . |
| 16 | I asked Gennaro how he came by the letter and he merely said that he knew the right people to approach . |
| 17 | He merely maintained that the non-recurrence of the same complexes of qualities was a probability , not a certainty . |
| 18 | On the other hand , he obviously felt that the past exemplified virtues which he admired . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If there had to be some sort of overall commander , he naturally felt that this should be himself . |
| 24 | He gently insisted that Francis Morgan got a cup of tea , with sugar , down him before he escorted him out to the waiting car . |
| 25 | He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter . |
| 26 | On Sunday , sitting between his father aid mother ii the Unitarian chapel , he only knew that where people were sad and solemn I was overcome , half-suffocated by the sadness aid the solemnity . |
| 27 | He only knew that he was afraid of her . |
| 28 | He only knew that in his anxious and over-concerned life his second greatest fear was that she might leave . |
| 29 | He only knew that Liza was the most sexually exciting woman he had ever come across and that , should they meet again , neither would be able to hold back from a passion which was so powerful it could only lead to trouble , about which his wife might come to hear . |
| 30 | Billy did n't know what was wrong , he only knew that something was . |