Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that i [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 2 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 3 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |
| 4 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 5 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 6 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 7 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 8 | ‘ Except for one or two episodes that I suppose he could n't miss , just to try , there was never a chance . |