Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 2 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 3 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 4 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 5 | You 'd certainly never guess that he suffered from arthritis … that was the chair cracking … not his hip . |
| 6 | The reason why this occurred er erm , the reason why this occurred was not due to some sort of er , due to emotional problems that he suffered within these repressed relations with his son . |
| 7 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |
| 8 | The only difference from the literary effusions of today 's superstars were that he wrote without benefit of a ‘ ghost ’ . |
| 9 | So too do most of his other notes and jottings and — more important — most of the substantial pieces of work that he wrote during this period . |
| 10 | The letters he wrote to her are more reminiscent of his earliest letters than anything else that he wrote as archbishop . |
| 11 | It was followed about twenty years later , in 1271 , by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ( ‘ Robert the Englishman , ) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco . |
| 12 | The original recipients of Hilton 's text , however , as is clear from the very fact that he wrote for them in the vernacular , were not interested in comparative academic study , but in particular guidance which would enable them to fully integrate their religious faith in their lives . |
| 13 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 14 | It was in a similarly reflective vein that he wrote to Marion Dorn later in the year . |
| 15 | Erm in the letters that he wrote to this bloke . |
| 16 | Will the Minister cast his mind back to the letter that he wrote to me last October — a soothing reply to the representations that I had made to him — pointing out that the Salford careers service , which covers my constituency , had forecast a shortfall of between 400 and 450 YTS places ? |
| 17 | Indeed , the author of the work was so outraged by the Government 's claims about what was said in the work that he wrote to the Evening Standard on 1 October and said : ’ We found much to criticise about the British arrangement for training young people . |
| 18 | I understand that he wrote to all members of the Cabinet asking them to turn up and support him in the votes after previous debates on this project . |
| 19 | A good indication of what was passing through his mind in the aftermath of Barricades Week is provided by a letter that he wrote to his son in mid-February : " we had to be done with the impertinent pressure of the European population in Algiers , with the hard core of politicians which was forming in the army , and finally with the myth of " French Algeria " which merely disguises the desire of the " pieds noirs " to maintain their domination over the Muslims … |
| 20 | In the emotionally charged pieces that he wrote from the war front , Nizan pointed up the inescapable fact that the future of France was being decided on the soil of Spain . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 22 | We have seen that he personally undertook the defences of the south coast when the king campaigned in the North , and that he wrote in warm praise of the king 's energy and practical wisdom , and ordered prayers for his protection against the malice of evil men who hated the king s good qualities . |
| 23 | Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground . |
| 24 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 25 | On the same day that he heard of the post at Shrewsbury , however , another letter reached him , addressed in an unfamiliar hand . |
| 26 | He told him of his experience and was interested to know that the phenomenon is by no means unknown and the other went on to relate another incident involving footsteps that he heard outside the office , but when he opened the door to investigate no one was there . |
| 27 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 28 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 29 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 30 | Will the Minister have a care with Torrells school in view of the mistake that he made with Stratford school ? |