Example sentences of "[adj] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only assume that it was from his previous experience as chairman of the Greater London council in 1985-86 that he learnt all about ’ getting your friends appointed to the key jobs ’ , and that that is why he assumes that the same is happening in the civil service now . |
| 2 | In my compartment two Frenchmen and a Spaniard were losing their pay to a tiny Glaswegian who excelled at poker ; he had already won most of the hands and was trying to explain in broad Scottish that he was open to credit arrangements . |
| 3 | Bush said on Nov. 30 that he was prepared to go " the extra mile for peace " , proposing that Iraq 's Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz should visit Washington for talks with him in mid-December and that this be followed by Baker visiting Baghdad . |
| 4 | President Lee Teng-hui announced on April 30 that he had signed a document declaring the end of the " Period of Mobilization for the Suppression of the Communist Rebellion " at midnight on April 30-May 1 . |
| 5 | Charles Haughey announced on Jan. 30 that he would resign as Prime Minister and leader of Fianna Fáil on Feb. 6 . |
| 6 | Despite an earlier commitment to abide by the result , Savimbi indicated on Sept. 30 that he would not accept defeat as the outcome of the elections . |
| 7 | She looked so stricken at this that he wished he had n't said it . |
| 8 | Baxter was so upset by this that he felt like leaving the school altogether . |
| 9 | Betty Rizzo observes that Philip Leapor voted for the first time in the 1749 election for Knight of the Shire , and judges from this that he had used the capital from the subscription to buy his freehold [ Rizzo ] . |
| 10 | Morey Bernstein was so impressed by this that he published details of the case in a book , The Search for Bridey Murphy , in which he gave Virginia Tighe the pseudonym Ruth Simmons . |
| 11 | It is for this that he was so praised by the right for his managerial qualities . |
| 12 | Man is unique among the apes in that he grows a long beard , and it is to this that he owes his superior intelligence |
| 13 | After one such day , on the journey back , he and his brother Ifor ended up in a nasty fight with several English supporters and it was to this that he traced the beginning of his lifelong , terribly painful and ultimately crushing spinal problems . |
| 14 | Later that year , when the giant 's favourite boar was killed by an arrow fired from an unknown bow , he was so enraged by this that he took the first-born of all his tenants and threatened to kill them unless the guilty one came forward or some other person informed on them . |
| 15 | It was in this period that de Gaulle was anxious to proceed with devising the CAP and it seemed because of this that he might make concessions to his partners . |
| 16 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 17 | It was very soon after this that he began to show signs of dissatisfaction with the ecclesiastical situation in the north . |
| 18 | It may have been shortly after this that he served ( so J. Capgrave says ) in the Italian crusades launched against the enemies of Pope John XXII . |
| 19 | It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper . |
| 20 | Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination . |
| 21 | But it was to this very building that he departed each morning , from an office much like this that he returned each night . |
| 22 | And er she says er the next thing was that if er , she says she heard him saying if you let me play in your back garden , this that he 's playing with , we 'll give you a sweet . |
| 23 | Whatever we may make of its influences , Leonard is clear that he ‘ never recovered ’ from its dénouements ; its ‘ illumination of human behaviour ’ ; its horror ( which he termed ‘ metaphorical ’ ) . |
| 24 | In other situations , however , PH 's pattern of responding makes it clear that he is recognizing familiar faces at an unconscious level . |
| 25 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 26 | Poststructuralists aspire to remove what they regard as the arbitrary distinctions between literature , criticism , theory , and philosophy , and Geoffrey Hartman has made it clear that he believes what he writes to be worthy of the esteem and attention normally given to ‘ creative ’ writing . |
| 27 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 28 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 29 | Quickly it became clear that he had mistaken quiet and comfort for contentment . |
| 30 | He will be advising us on ways and means forward ’ , Haines subsequently made it clear that he will not be an impotent lackey . |