Example sentences of "that he did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kidd said that he did not think the UK Government would follow suit , but believed pressure from a more demanding American market could encourage British hotels to upgrade their precautions beyond the legal minimum . |
| 2 | Sergeant Bramble was so engrossed in mouthing along with the Daily Express that he did not notice the opening of the door . |
| 3 | The small foreign person was walking as jauntily as ever , though Bramble realized that he did so with a pronounced limp . |
| 4 | He confirmed that he did think it would be for the best if I dropped out of family life , and in my heart , I knew he was right . |
| 5 | I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments . |
| 6 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 7 | Murder brought Raskolnikov to see that he did n't believe his reasons for committing it . |
| 8 | To this severe driving home of the issue in pursuit of crisis and clarity , Stavrogin might fairly reply that he did n't create himself lukewarm . |
| 9 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 10 | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television 's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to ‘ spend and spend again' when they took office . |
| 11 | These results caused Jonah Barrington , the former world No. 1 who has waited an age for signs of Englishmen who might become world beaters in the way that he did , to make an interesting boast . |
| 12 | But the Chancellor said in a series of television and radio interviews that he did not believe in ‘ trying to play silly games , political games ’ — and he would not rule out a further increase if it became necessary . |
| 13 | Len Murray of the TUC worked hard but was unable to exert power that he did not possess . |
| 14 | It surprised some that he did not retire to Cambridge . |
| 15 | Frank said that he did not believe in God ; such a belief can not possibly be proved ; the good life is possible without it ; and the only faculty to judge is the reason , which tells us to say , we do not know . |
| 16 | In old age he used to regret that he did so well in the classical scholarship because it caused him not to read history . |
| 17 | In retrospect I am glad that he did . ’ |
| 18 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 19 | He taught her that the sacrament of the eucharist was so big that he did not feel that he had finished with it when he came home after the service at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning . |
| 20 | The nonconformists noted that he did not unchurch them but were not happy with his plea that they recognize bishops to be essential to the Church . |
| 21 | He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go . |
| 22 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 23 | The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had , in this case , been neglectful , and Charlie was looking , though that he did not know , where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began . |
| 24 | Yet later , after Mubarak 's death , Genet discovers that he did not sleep with women or men ; all of his sexuality was social : ‘ the warmth of that voice had the shy yet imperious sureness of an erect penis stroking a beloved cheek . |
| 25 | So he created a smokescreen , making the excuse that he did n't think Steve was a good enough guitarist by himself and that we needed a second guitar . |
| 26 | MacDonald 's reply , that he did not share that belief , is , again , an indication that he did not wish to remain as Prime Minister if his government collapsed . |
| 27 | MacDonald 's reply , that he did not share that belief , is , again , an indication that he did not wish to remain as Prime Minister if his government collapsed . |
| 28 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 29 | He had not wanted a drama , demands , excitement , but he had somewhere wanted her at least to complain that he did not . |
| 30 | I could tell he was keen from the fact that he did n't mention it again for a couple of years . |