Example sentences of "that he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liverpool boss has told Dons ' chairman Sam Hammam that he Centre-back Scales remains Souness ' priority , the Reds boss having snapped up Nottingham Forest midfielder Nigel Clough . |
| 2 | It was in Berlin that he first read Morelli 's work . |
| 3 | It was in 1761 , that he first wrote an account of one of the Salons , which was circulated with his other correspondence in the fashion of the time by his friend Grimm . |
| 4 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 5 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 6 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 7 | He still retains an affection for the place , perhaps because it was there that he first encountered the inspiring sight of human beings at odds with , and frequently overcoming , an unpromising environment . |
| 8 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
| 9 | All this assumes , of course , that the doctor 's duty demands that he first satisfy himself that the patient is capable of making a rational decision . |
| 10 | This was being built between 1831 and 1833 , and it was probably about then that he first met Gilbert Scott . |
| 11 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 12 | It was on a visit to Ulverston that he first met Thomas West , who was working on his historical and topographic work on the area . |
| 13 | His first-class debut was for the Minor Counties against Oxford University in 1939 , but it was not until 1947 that he first played for Surrey , as an aggressive fast-medium bowler , who also liked to give the ball a good whack when batting . |
| 14 | It was at university that he first began to perform , and he later went to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg . |
| 15 | It 's said that he first traced the outline for his ladylike creation around a tall woman friend . |
| 16 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 17 | It was here that he first conceived the idea of being a peasant painter . |
| 18 | It was at TMcL that he first met his one and only ‘ accountancy ’ hero , James Dowling , the then senior partner — ‘ one of the finest men I have ever met and arguably the best accountant Scotland has ever seen ’ . |
| 19 | As it turned out , Mario was n't allowed to race at Monza because he 'd driven a dirt-track race within the previous twenty-four hours , and it was n't until Watkins Glen at the end of 1968 that he first drove in a FI race . |
| 20 | We need not bother with the details , save to say that it is quite certain that all the contemporary accounts of Balboa 's triumph — which mention that he first saw the Pacific at 10 am on Tuesday , 25 September — are wrong . |
| 21 | It is unclear why he so suddenly dropped the idea that he first pushed forward with some vigour . |
| 22 | Dave Preece introduces a technique for laminating that he first used when shaping the curved runners on a sled |
| 23 | In three ways these complex diplomatic manoeuvrings had touched Richard closely : as Alice 's husband-to-be ; as overlord of western Berry and the Auvergne ; and finally as a future crusader , for it was probably in Normandy in September 1177 that he first heard a papal legate preach of the perils facing the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem . |
| 24 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 25 | Although Hazel guessed that they must now have gone further from the warren than any rabbit he had ever talked to , he was not sure whether they were yet safely away : and it was while he was wondering — not for the first time — whether he could hear sounds of pursuit that he first noticed the dark masses of the trees and the brook disappearing among them . |
| 26 | It was probably here , too , that he first encountered Paul Odo Cross , the wealthy ex-ballet dancer who lived with the plant photographer , Angus Wilson , at Tidcombe Manor in Wiltshire , where they created a marvellous garden and influenced Cedric Morris with their growing and breeding of irises . |
| 27 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |
| 28 | The song ‘ You are my Heart 's Delight ’ from Lehár 's operetta The Land of Smiles ( 1929 ) was one of his most famous , and it was in this work that he first came to England in 1931 . |
| 29 | It is in 1290 , however , that he first comes into prominence with his appointment to the responsible post of clerk of the king 's council . |
| 30 | Although most DNA is in the B form , whose structure was originally determined by Watson and Crick , there is no reason why the cell should not make use of other forms as well , and indeed Alex Rich ( MIT ) described a protein binding with high affinity to the left-handed helix of Z-DNA that he first described . |