Example sentences of "that he [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was in a similarly reflective vein that he wrote to Marion Dorn later in the year . |
| 3 | Erm in the letters that he wrote to this bloke . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Nizan 's exceptionally good grasp of the Spanish political situation was doubtless the product of numerous visits that he made to Spain during 1936 . |
| 9 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 10 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 11 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 12 | He was a man of considerable literary taste ( I must report , in all modesty , that he subscribed to the Informer and never missed these ‘ jottings ’ ) who died , so the authorities would have us believe , by falling into an empty swimming-pool when drunk on hard-to-come-by malt whisky . |
| 13 | However , it was only in September 1937 , at the Party Rally , that he returned to a frontal attack on Jewry , framed in general terms , in connection with his main attack on Bolshevism , which he explicitly dubbed a Jewish creation . |
| 14 | He also sent his brother a sketch of the little church at Turnham Green — together with a sketch of another church at Petersham — and he records that he returned to Turnham Green on a number of occasions subsequently . |
| 15 | Since it took so long for Dobson finally to take over in Macclesfield , it may be either that he returned to Stockport as Master from some period or that the Goldsmiths forgot that they had appointed Escolmbe , or that Escolmbe himself never took up his duties . |
| 16 | There is no evidence that he returned to England , although his son was knighted by Henry VII in 1500 . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside is brandishing a document that he sent to me , but he refused my offer to come to see me . |
| 18 | It was presented formally in a confidential memorandum that he sent to President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan in September 1958 , to " hoist his colours " , as he put it in his memoirs ( the same expression that he had used to describe the broadcast of 18 June 1940 ) . |
| 19 | Despite the size of the stables and the fact that he belonged to the world of flat-racing where appearances count for something , Short had made no compromises . |
| 20 | He was engulfed once more in an indescribable peace , and knew again , as he had known at dawn on the outskirts of Zweeloo , that he belonged to life , that the primal desire of man is to come into being , to achieve this peace . |
| 21 | He was in his forties and his manner and speech clearly indicated that he belonged to a much higher social class than Atkins and his colleagues . |
| 22 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 23 | After a while , Ackroyd thought that he belonged to one of the local farms , and that because of his pale complexion he was recovering from an illness . |
| 24 | Goff thought that Minton , consciously or unconsciously , divided his friends into two categories , serious and fun — and was aware that he belonged to the first . |
| 25 | Perhaps Ken 's one failing was that he belonged to a breed of footballer who would later include Charlie George , Rodney Marsh and Emlyn Hughes — big heads . |
| 26 | Nothing is known of Eardwulf 's ancestry except that he was a son of an Eardwulf , but that he belonged to a family with strong Ripon associations is probable . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that he belonged to the Bozon family of Norfolk , and that he may had studied at Oxford . |
| 28 | It is likely that he belonged to the friary in Nottingham ( he refers to the rivers Trent and Derwent as if they are familiar to him ) . |
| 29 | As it is there are thousands of girls like me , and at least we have the comfort of knowing that he belonged to no one , and can belong to no one . |
| 30 | The fact that it lacked heraldry around it was a sign that he belonged to no particular lord , though the blue sash announced he was attached to the Household of Ralarth . |