Example sentences of "that [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 2 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 3 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 4 | He struggled against the nightmare grip that paralysed him . |
| 5 | To be fair to him , it was a wretchedness that haunted him . |
| 6 | But Lewis 's fiction Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) is the outcome of a private dream that haunted him for decades , based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche , though it outpaces at times his capacity to tell . |
| 7 | It was the tears that haunted him . |
| 8 | During his waking hours the thought that haunted him was the Renault 18 and its two occupants . |
| 9 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 10 | Just in time , Dick developed a viral nasty that made him lethargic . |
| 11 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 12 | On the one hand , he was loved for his own great ability , his loyalty to his teams , his concern for youngsters and all the other good work he did off the pitch , and for his warm , relaxed character that made him friends in many places . |
| 13 | He had the sort of sensitive nose that made him instantly burst into tears if it got the slightest knock . |
| 14 | It was only the sun , flashing briefly on her bleached hair , that made him shade his eyes and look again in that direction . |
| 15 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 16 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 17 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 18 | Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila 's purposes . |
| 19 | He sensed the imminence of some kind of public display and that made him very nervous indeed . |
| 20 | He employed the wry , self-deprecation that made him a refreshing presence on the campaign trail . |
| 21 | No , success came because Mr Major discovered what he believed , and that made him feel free at last . |
| 22 | Suddenly he remembered something that made him jump . |
| 23 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 24 | In the centre of the road was a six-foot colour portrait of President Assad , an artist 's impression of the Syrian leader in air force uniform that made him look like an elderly Battle of Britain pilot , eyes narrowed against the sun , gaze fixed on the heavens . |
| 25 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
| 26 | He did not look up until he was right down in the station ; and it was a sound that made him look up . |
| 27 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 28 | He remembered old dad VATman up at Hoomey 's sitting by the fire and how he had wanted to go there , and that made him think of a good name : Lucky Fireside … no , Firelight , Lucky Firelight . |
| 29 | The same applied to her cousin Bean but Jazz , if he had never ridden before , had a natural balance that made him look positively accomplished beside the other two . |
| 30 | But it was the driver that made him halt abruptly . |