Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] he [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evenings they read together , keeping silent because he believed that silence was more real than chatter , and at half past nine they went to bed . |
| 2 | The person beset by fears and anxieties who nevertheless manages to present a confident exterior will often feel self-contempt because he feels that he is living a lie and that one day someone will catch him out . |
| 3 | Bukharin rejected this since he argued that to do so would be to disregard the historical character of the dictatorship of the proletariat . |
| 4 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
| 5 | I think that Paul could feel joyful because he felt that his life was nearing its end at the time that he wrote . |
| 6 | A local coroner on a routine inspection became suspicious when he discovered that one baby had unusually high levels of a potent heart drug , digoxin , in its tissues . |
| 7 | At Amis 's stage of existence , the options were narrowing fast and he knew that out of all the possibilities , wonderful was hardly the most likely . |
| 8 | Yes but he wrote a book called this because he thought that er the conservatives were losing . |
| 9 | And he wanted to do this because he thought that if it were possible , if we could start just from our own sense experiences , then a great simplification would have been achieved . |
| 10 | Then Sharpe saw the far crops being trampled flat and he knew that each patch of collapsing rye betrayed the advance of a French column . |
| 11 | When Huw reached the entrance to the dock , the gates appeared to be shut , but as soon as he put his hand to them , they swung open and he found that the chain and padlock had been taken off . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect he 'll be flaming mad when he knows that , wo n't he ? |
| 13 | Although time seems always to have been important for Petrarch , he tended to value it even more as he got older because he realized that , as with other things , it becomes more precious as it becomes less plentiful . |
| 14 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |
| 15 | He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere . |
| 16 | But de Gaulle held firm because he knew that time was working in his favour . |
| 17 | He could not find any and he realised that it would be the voice of Dame Melba which rang out in the backstreets as he advertised the fact that he had a gramophone for sale . |