Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not for nothing that he was chosen as Mr Squeaky Clean after the sexual and financial aberrations of his two predecessors . |
| 2 | It 's not for nothing that he has earned his reputation as Scotland 's most effective ‘ company doctor ’ . |
| 3 | It was not for nothing that he paid house insurance . |
| 4 | ‘ It is n't for nothing that he was called the most dangerous man in the galaxy . ’ |
| 5 | On his return to France he was so enthusiastic about them that he even planted a trial field and let the local population steal them so that they could experience this new vegetable for themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ He has to put his proposals to the parties now , because he has made so many public comments about them that he has no other choice , ’ he said . |
| 7 | His priority is people : it is through them that he makes profit . |
| 8 | In the fourth Gospel Jesus tells his followers , heart-broken because he is going to leave them , that it is better for them that he should do so : |
| 9 | Although his analysis is principally philosophical and occasionally historical the concepts and theoretical relations between them that he develops are relevant to understanding specific instances of ideology . |
| 10 | And it 's never quite fitted for me that he could be so stiff and laconic in Cabinet and yet try and be much more expansive on these set-piece occasions . |
| 11 | It was a great thrill for me to beat Yevgeniev and important for me that he was there . |
| 12 | ‘ It is wonderful for me that he is there to talk to . |
| 13 | Dorian began to understand things about himself that he had never understood before . |
| 14 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 15 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |
| 16 | To discover for himself that he is wrong . ’ |
| 17 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 18 | He was so fond of them that he 'd stuck them together with Sellotape . |
| 19 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 20 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 21 | Dealings with clients ' money — a solicitor must keep a careful and separate account of any money of yours that he handles and must account to you for deposit interest if he or she holds a significant amount of your money for a significant length of time . |
| 22 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 23 | You know one of his that he makes ? |
| 24 | These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority . |
| 25 | Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive . |
| 26 | John Lawlor , a pupil from 1936 onwards , said of himself that he ‘ passed from dislike and hostility to stubborn affection , and then to gratitude for the weekly bout in which no quarter was asked or given ’ . |
| 27 | He encouraged himself with promises that after ten paces he could rest , then demanded of himself that he manage another five and another five until he lost count of how far he 'd come and how far he had to go . |
| 28 | He wrote of himself that he had a ‘ heart full of blood & quick of impression ’ , was ‘ hasty of determination ’ , and ‘ leaky of secrets ’ . |
| 29 | He says of himself that he was , that there was a curious pleasure in making oneself believe that time and space are unreal , that matter is an illusion , and that the world really exists , consists of nothing but mind . |
| 30 | And looking back on his emergence from absolute idealism , he says of himself that he came to hate the stuffiness of supposing that space and time were only in the mind . |