Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If watching plays is so painful for David that he wishes he were somewhere else , then I for one would be glad to take his place . |
| 2 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 3 | But quite often Quigley will keep his audience in such a state of suspense that he forgets what it was he intended to say . |
| 4 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 5 | What , what what er level of income that he thought he needed . |
| 6 | So obsessed was he with the details of administration that he saw nothing inappropriate , while Governor-General of Nigeria , in personally composing a memorandum on the issue of chamber pots to second-class administrative officers : he was , he said , against it . |
| 7 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 8 | The innermost southern shore of the peninsula had been the chosen land of Pythagoras , your namesake , perhaps your ancestor , the apostle of eternal return : it was in the market square at Crotone on the Gulf of Taranto south of Riba that he exposed his thigh and showed that it was golden , and so was honoured by the inhabitants as a special favourite of the gods , quasi-divine himself . |
| 9 | That is what the greenbelt is actually there for , and if you have it there for that purpose , as I said yesterday , the necessary corollary is that you have additional provision beyond it , and I ca n't resist to offer Mr Wincup some support , I 'm sure one piece of evidence that he gave you about the letter from the Parish Council , he 's probably already replied to that Parish Council saying , as you 're in the York greenbelt have no fear , all the Selby needs will pass straight across your heads and land somewhere else . |
| 10 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 11 | Similarly , it is as a participant in the Hindu way of life that he understands what it means to talk of Religion ; he understands the meaning of the term Religion from its use in his own form of life . |
| 12 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |
| 13 | It was with a sense of relief that he made his way alone into the bar and ordered a glass of champagne . |
| 14 | The sort of encounter that he wants us to have with him . |
| 15 | It seemed such a bizarre exchange after two decades of silence that he repeated her name — ‘ Sue ? ’ — as if it might turn out not to be her after all . |
| 16 | It 's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me . |
| 17 | Pretending to be an ascetic , he slept while in the field on a mat of straw that he had himself woven … |
| 18 | But we are thrown a hint that his triumph is hardly long-lived , for when he stands , alone , high above the still forms of the dead below , it is not a look of satisfaction that he throws us , but one of puzzlement at his own work . |
| 19 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 20 | Celtic farmed him out to Blantyre Celtic to toughen him up and it was in the killing fields of Blantyre that he won his first honour , a Scottish Junior cap . |
| 21 | He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt . |
| 22 | Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number . |
| 23 | In the latter case Z buys from X through X 's agent Y ; it is with X that he made his contract and if things go wrong , he can look to his seller , X , for a remedy . |
| 24 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 25 | Hummel was so concerned with tempo that he had it written into his contract that he was to have control over all tempos during his 18-year tenure at Weimar . |
| 26 | He still treated Edward coolly , stating with conviction that he had his orders direct from London and saw no need to go over them in detail , and no possibility that he would modify them on the say-so of a junior officer he did not know . |
| 27 | In the case of the Emperor Nero , we can tell from coins that he abandoned his youthful hairstyle for the more mature one ‘ arranged in steps ’ ( as Suetonius calls it ) in AD 63 ( fig. 13 ) . |
| 28 | She knew from experience that he took everything seriously . |
| 29 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 30 | As the recession deepened [ see below ] , the Hawke government began 1991 some 18 percentage points behind the opposition in opinion polls , raising questions concerning Hawke 's future as leader , particularly as Keating had let it be known at a National Press Club dinner in December that he believed he would make a better Prime Minister than Hawke . |