Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 2 | He was so fond of them that he 'd stuck them together with Sellotape . |
| 3 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 4 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 5 | Dealings with clients ' money — a solicitor must keep a careful and separate account of any money of yours that he handles and must account to you for deposit interest if he or she holds a significant amount of your money for a significant length of time . |
| 6 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 7 | You know one of his that he makes ? |
| 8 | His head was so full of her that he could think of nothing else . |
| 9 | He came — she felt the moment in pain and sadness — but he continued to move , banging at her , clutching just that part of her that he needed , as if he 'd felt nothing , as if he did n't know when to stop . |
| 10 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 11 | ‘ Now , Taggy , you know well it is because of her that he had nothing . |
| 12 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 13 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 14 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 15 | It was said of him that he was preparing his Easter sermon early one Easter Day when the significance of the resurrection dawned on him . |
| 16 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 17 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 18 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 19 | Epictetus said of him that he offered no handle for another person to grip and hurt him . |
| 20 | Seius Saturninus , a chief helmsman of the British fleet , left in his will Captain Valerius Maximus as his trustee-heir , and requested of him that he should make over his [ Seius ' ] estate to his son , Seius Oceanus , when he had reached the age of sixteen . |
| 21 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 22 | Dad moved slowly towards Mum and I could see by the look of him that he was furious . |
| 23 | It was typical of him that he ‘ allowed everybody to ride it ’ . |
| 24 | But , Kähler insisted , precisely this principle can not be relied upon in the case of Jesus , because of the witness of the Bible and of Christian experience of him that he is unique , perfect and free from sin . |
| 25 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 26 | I too , as one who is not a Christian , might well say of him that he knew and loved God . |
| 27 | He enjoyed talking about art with Rodrigo and , respecting his resoluteness ( it was said of him that he was the only Sohoite to be arrested for being drunk and orderly ) , asked him to act , with Anthony Lousada , as his executor . |
| 28 | She said of him that he had real taste with the produce and was a willing lad all round . |
| 29 | 1647 ) [ q.v. ] wrote of him that he was ‘ such a desperate licenser ’ that ‘ if the Devil himself could make a book , and give it the title , A Plea for Liberty of Conscience … he would license it . ’ |
| 30 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |