Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] that he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 2 | He thought he recognised in Creed qualities that he had himself : the ability to wait and to charge the act of waiting with the current of anticipation , to check and double-check , so that when the waiting was over everything would go like clockwork . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Ashdown would be better concentrating on the basic issues that are of concern to the electorate rather than perpetually engaging in imagined card games that he thinks he would like to play on Friday morning . ’ |
| 4 | In the present case the deceased indicated in clear terms to Mr. Morgan and Miss Calagarri that he regarded his name , written by him as part of the phrase ‘ My Will by Percy Winterbone , ’ as being his signature . |
| 5 | For there was absolutely no need at all for him to walk so close to where she was walking or to bump into her and so catch her off balance — the end result being that he had his arms around her , as if to save her , before she could stop him . |
| 6 | It was on an aid pitch that he took his only fall , ripping two pegs before the last aid point held him . |
| 7 | Later the same day , a London correspondent could write to William Stonor that he had nothing new to report . |
| 8 | Later the same day , a London correspondent could write to William Stonor that he had nothing new to report . |
| 9 | It was about a fortnight after I arrived in Punta Arenas that he showed me his journal and I was able to take a translation of those entries . |
| 10 | He mentioned to Sergeant Pope that he knew who was responsible for the murder of Oliver . |
| 11 | The Shah shared much of Behbehanians suspicion of the British , But now in Aswan , he did not seem to be greatly in favour of Behbehanians suggestion that he throw himself in their mercy . |
| 12 | Benjamin Britten , a composer , was so moved with Owen 's war poetry that he created his ‘ War Requiem ’ based on his poems . |
| 13 | So erm amongst the business property that he has he has this warehouse with |
| 14 | But it was in the opera house not the organ loft that he found his true métier . |
| 15 | He had won it convincingly , as the judges ' 60–56 , 60–56 , 60–57 scores proved , but such is the tension of the schools finals second only in most young boxers ' eyes to the senior ABA finals that he felt he needed a bit more help . |
| 16 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 17 | No doubt , it was for such men as Peter Bouverie that he felt he had been called to come south . |
| 18 | STUART BARNES last night warned Rob Andrew that he wants his England shirt . |
| 19 | Richard is said to have favoured the axe as a hand-to-hand weapon , and a contemporary poem records that he had one made specially before departing for the Holy Land : |
| 20 | Carter had already excavated on behalf of Lord Amherst in the 1890s , but it was during his period with Lord Carnarvan that he made his most spectacular and significant finds , digging at Thebes and in the Valley of the Kings . |
| 21 | Brian Hillier agreed with the defence suggestion that he had nothing to fear from any so-called threats , he had already resigned from the club and he was awaiting trial for cheating the taxman . |
| 22 | It was for the Bank team that he performed his most noteworthy cricket feat , when against Earlswood CC in 1981 he performed the hat trick with his slow off-spinners at the age of 76 . |
| 23 | None of these expressions implies of itself that God as God suffers as we do , still less , as is suggested in Margaret Spufford 's quotation from The Man on a Donkey , in her book Celebration that He renders Himself ‘ powerless against the free and evil wills of men ’ . |
| 24 | I do n't suppose it 's serious , but he 's so terrified of Blue Ear Disease that he watches them like a hawk . ’ |
| 25 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |