Example sentences of "he that he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He then incurred the wrath of his senior officers by writing a rude letter to the Governor , telling him that he had no right to interfere in a dispute between gentlemen . |
| 32 | The doctor , when he had first seen her , had awakened a creature deep within him that he had thought would sleep for ever — until the day he died . |
| 33 | The medium had also told him that he had a gift , but he did n't discover it until my older brother , just after the war , contracted polio and was discharged from hospital with a paralysed arm and leg . |
| 34 | It dawned on him that he had not had a date for weeks , and his first one would be with her at the Edwardian Ball . |
| 35 | Mr Clark , 64 , who stood down at the last election , had assured him that he had not advised companies to conceal military use when preparing export licence applications . |
| 36 | Regretfully , the young gentleman told him that he had quoted me the price to the trade , and for a retail sale it would be slightly more expensive , i.e. £36 plus VAT . |
| 37 | I 'd told him that he had fainted , which he found fascinating . |
| 38 | The Bishop however informed him that he had no vacancy for a chaplain — a refusal which Tyndale never forgave : in his Preface to the translation of the Five Books of Moses , where he describes the incident , there is a marginal note , ‘ Room in my Lord 's house for belly-cheer but none to translate the New Testament . ’ |
| 39 | They asked him how he proposed to work with Pilger and , to his surprise , told him that he had far more power than Pilger had led him to believe . |
| 40 | It occurred to him that he had reached the age when a man looks forward to his pleasures less keenly than in youth but is disproportionately aggrieved when his plans are upset . |
| 41 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 42 | In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen . |
| 43 | Afterwards Chudnovsky went to Semenov and , apparently , in the course of their conversation he notified him that he had received some money from Costakis . |
| 44 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 45 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 46 | But he saw Baldwin on the Sunday morning and told him that he had no doubt that Curzon would be chosen , although his own turn would come in due course . |
| 47 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 48 | The following day she had been able to tell him that he had n't been there , and had demanded the truth . |
| 49 | She said of him that he had real taste with the produce and was a willing lad all round . |
| 50 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
| 51 | Mr. Gilberd instructed the defendant to confirm with the bank that the cheque was acceptable , and the defendant later told him that he had done so and that such a cheque was ‘ as good as cash . ’ |
| 52 | She was so near to him that he had to close his eyes . |
| 53 | If her father had told him that he had also to hold the rod in his hand and drop the line into the water she would not have been surprised . |
| 54 | Howard Samuel never had the courage to tell him that he had no recollection of their night-time conversation because of his post-prandial condition , so Randolph always regarded the fact that the licence had been obtained for the Labour Party as a gross breach of trust . |
| 55 | I got into the car , to be told by him that he had made the most elaborate arrangements for lunch . |
| 56 | Touch wood , he had been lucky and come through it all unscathed , but it would be no consolation to Byford to tell him that he had been un lucky , that it was the RIC and their Black and Tan recruits rather than British army patrols that were the main IRA targets . |
| 57 | It did n't seem the moment to remind him that he had . |
| 58 | Christina wanted to remind him that he had only helped with the backing and that the real work had been done by Stephen and her , but she kept quiet and instead watched Jean Reece-Carlton as she turned away from a gloating Robert in disgust , muttering something under her breath . |
| 59 | Now she told him that he had never understood her in any case . |
| 60 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |