Example sentences of "he [verb] that [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also sent his brother a sketch of the little church at Turnham Green — together with a sketch of another church at Petersham — and he records that he returned to Turnham Green on a number of occasions subsequently . |
| 2 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 3 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 4 | He accepts that it has to be traded off against the 25 per cent improvement in fuel consumption and longer engine life . |
| 5 | He says that they spoke to Mr Morley and he agreed to come out . |
| 6 | He says that whatever needs to be done should be done to stop anything similar happening . |
| 7 | He says that it needs to be tested . |
| 8 | He claimed that they contributed to the ‘ degeneration of a once prestigious avenue ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ When he heard that you wanted to be near Marilla , he decided to teach at a school in another village . |
| 10 | So badly was he affected that he had to be taught to speak again . |
| 11 | He ascertained that it related to the evidence and not to the law , but he did not find out what the problem was and merely gave general guidance . |
| 12 | He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers . |
| 13 | In the course of explaining his various duties to Virginia Woolf he confessed that he seemed to be turning into an " Old Buffer " and wondered if he might not also be guilty of humbug . |
| 14 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 15 | Karajan would give that fantasist all the freedom he needed because he knew that what appeals to an audience is something arising out of the immediate performance , out of something that is happening within the mind of the musician at that moment . |
| 16 | George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind . |
| 17 | And then he remembered that it had to be borne , that there was no other choice , and that there would be no escape from this place . |
| 18 | John Dower , the father of the National Parks , got it right when he said that we look to the farming communities for the continuance not only of the landscape but of the drama itself , rural life and work . |
| 19 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 20 | ( 4 ) In determining the value of an action under paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) : ( a ) the sum which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover shall be reduced by the amount of any debt which he admits that he owes to a defendant in that action and which arises from the circumstances which give rise to the action ; ( b ) no account shall be taken of a possible finding of contributory negligence , except to the extent , if any , that such negligence is admitted ; ( c ) where the plaintiff seeks an award of provisional damages as described in s 32A(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , no account shall be taken of the possibility of a future application for further damages ; ( d ) the value shall be taken to include sums which , by virtue of s 22 of the Social Security Act 1989 , are required to be paid to the Secretary of State . |
| 21 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 22 | He suggested that we adjourn to the bar . |
| 23 | He suggested that I spoke to the department that approved aircraft radio equipment , and I was duly transferred to that department . |
| 24 | But he calculated that it had to be worth it , that such casualties would be minor compared with those which would result from a prolonged , slogging , hand-to-hand battle . |
| 25 | He believes that there seems to be extra-sensory perception ( ESP ) between spiders who spin similar webs from birth , and flocks of starlings that twist and turn at great speed without colliding . |