Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 2 | Not that he ever mentions it , or that I 've ever asked him , but he 's the type to consider it a sacred duty to have everything in order for every emergency . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Not that I 've ever seen him drunk , ma'am . ’ |
| 4 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 6 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 7 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 8 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 9 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 10 | ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’ |
| 11 | I hope that I have not put him off . |
| 12 | I can assure you that I did and I can assure you that I have already thanked him on behalf of the Council , shook his hand and said how well he done it , but if you 'd like a letter to go to say how well he done it , then I 'll send a letter telling him how well he done it . |
| 13 | It certainly has no basis in the figures that I have just given him in answer to his question . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend will be aware that I have often urged him to follow the Basildon project with the Skelmersdale project . |
| 15 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 16 | It 's just that I have never seen him |
| 17 | It had simply been fun , the sort of fun she had with her women friends , except that she had also desired him , and he her . |
| 18 | The equally obvious fact that she had clearly felt he 'd married well beneath him — and into a family of which she had already disapproved — was something that Laura had n't known how to deal with . |
| 19 | Looking back , it seemed to Freddie that she had simply wanted him and him alone — as he had wanted her . |
| 20 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 21 | She 'd been so engrossed that she had n't heard him come in . |
| 22 | He was pretty sure that she had n't recognised him . |
| 23 | Mildred spent a lot of time by the pond telling the frog-magician that she had n't forgotten him and that she would get him out if it was the last thing she did . |
| 24 | To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him . |
| 25 | He added that she had not given him her London address . |
| 26 | Realising that she had not loved him , Boris then starved himself to death . |
| 27 | I could tell from the blank embarrassment in Tom 's expression that she had not acknowledged him . |
| 28 | ‘ Witch , ’ he told her , his face relaxed , boyish , showing the easy charm that she had not known he possessed while they had been so busy provoking each other . |
| 29 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 30 | Mrs Stevens got the blame for producing these but she claimed that she had merely kept him talking while her son went for the police . |