Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] he " in BNC.

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1 McMurdo would like to persist with the illusion that everything he touches turns to gold , but several Scottish professionals think otherwise .
2 Place was further of the opinion that what he described for London went for the country as a whole .
3 I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing .
4 He had early and with total certainty come to the conclusion that whatever he had as an actor was beyond his comprehension .
5 I assure the right hon. Gentleman that what he has said is not correct .
6 When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue .
7 And yet I would n't dismiss out of hand Auden 's claim that what he says of our family life holds as true of Coronation Street as of Lowndes Square .
8 I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum .
9 Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews .
10 As he turned back the coverlet of the bed where he must sleep alone , Frere consoled himself with the thought that what he was incapable of accomplishing himself might be accomplished for him by time and that providential hand , of which , in his earnest efforts outside the home , he was the faithful instrument .
11 Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him .
12 She strained back , her hands scrabbling and slipping on the smoothly varnished cabin-top , humiliated at his arrogant assumption that whatever he wanted he could have just because he was a Venetian prince .
13 But he must take care that what he creates builds up to a monolithic whole .
14 The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) .
15 He brought with him into the Treasury few old prejudices beyond the self-confidence of his conviction that whatever he believed in at a particular time was right .
16 ‘ When I went to him , I had no idea that what he would say to me might bring him within the sphere of our investigation . ’
17 A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life .
18 Obviously Tony was under the impression that what he said was true , for there was certainly no malice intended in what he said .
19 By the middle of January 1937 , he had spoken to Mairet , and he gave the impression that anything he might write about the crisis in the New English Weekly would be done with some reluctance , not least because he was extremely busy .
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