Example sentences of "that he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession . |
| 2 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 3 | It was in the course of a leisurely journey on the trans-Siberian Railway that he persuaded Wheeler-Bennett to devote himself to becoming a specialist on contemporary Germany . |
| 4 | Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east . |
| 5 | We do not expect that he perused every word of the book . |
| 6 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 7 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 8 | touched that he touched several things . |
| 9 | He thought that he learnt a lot about preaching from this experience . |
| 10 | Later in life Ramsey believed that he learnt a lot from his short time at Liverpool . |
| 11 | Later he knew that he learnt a lot . |
| 12 | The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month . |
| 13 | If Italy provided Ramsay with the polish of sophistication and a kind of classical elegance , it was from the French that he learnt a quality he was to make quite his own : gracefulness . |
| 14 | It was as a policeman that he learnt to kill people . |
| 15 | Here it was that he learnt to draw dresses . |
| 16 | I can only assume that it was from his previous experience as chairman of the Greater London council in 1985-86 that he learnt all about ’ getting your friends appointed to the key jobs ’ , and that that is why he assumes that the same is happening in the civil service now . |
| 17 | And he was delighted that he learnt how to say , I 'm having a lie-in tomorrow morning . |
| 18 | It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair . |
| 19 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 20 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 21 | Dear Guitarist I was just reading Joe Satriani 's article in your mag and found that he suffered the same as myself regarding the tremolo unit on his Ibanez . |
| 22 | This incident so affected the policeman that he suffered a nervous breakdown from which , it is said , he never fully recovered . |
| 23 | AI has received reports indicating that he suffered a severe eye injury as a result of beatings during interrogation . |
| 24 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 25 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 26 | The reason why this occurred er erm , the reason why this occurred was not due to some sort of er , due to emotional problems that he suffered within these repressed relations with his son . |
| 27 | The plaintiff must also show that the type of injury that he suffered was the type the legislation sought to prevent . |
| 28 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 29 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 30 | You 'd certainly never guess that he suffered from arthritis … that was the chair cracking … not his hip . |