Example sentences of "of [noun sg] that he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But quite often Quigley will keep his audience in such a state of suspense that he forgets what it was he intended to say . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What , what what er level of income that he thought he needed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |
| 9 | It was with a sense of relief that he made his way alone into the bar and ordered a glass of champagne . |
| 10 | The sort of encounter that he wants us to have with him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me . |
| 13 | Pretending to be an ascetic , he slept while in the field on a mat of straw that he had himself woven … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |