Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little . |
| 2 | Though Amiss was not entirely convinced that Trueman had been murdered , he did feel a sense of unease about the Admiral 's safety , so he was relieved to see that he seemed to be getting on rather better with his committee colleagues than the Sunday experiences had promised . |
| 3 | They met him and agreed to pay him an extra £10,300 at £575 per flat to ensure that he continued with the work and completed on time . |
| 4 | Might the assailant be able to claim that he acted in self-defence ? 4 . |
| 5 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 6 | WGOL supported Dave by financing the jump and we are pleased to report that he survived without any broken bones ! |
| 7 | Surely it would be more accurate to say that he shifted from one theory to another , and that both formulations had their external , political aspect ? |
| 8 | It is not necessary to suppose that he acted on his own initiative , although this is implied in the Anonimalle Chronicle ( 11 , pp.158–9 ) : possibly his advisers felt that he might be less at risk than they themselves , and that in the circumstances a policy of temporary conciliation was the best course of action . |
| 9 | I never took a meal with him , but I should be surprised to find that he ate with a good appetite . |