Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] he " in BNC.
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1 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
2 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |
3 | She said it was highly possible that had he received a blood transfusion his life might have been saved . |
4 | He employed the wry , self-deprecation that made him a refreshing presence on the campaign trail . |
5 | But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence . |
6 | I believe it was the fact that the preaching was truly expository that hooked him . |
7 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
8 | Frederick Bissett was a member of the Institute of Professional Scientists , and a fat lot of good that did him . |
9 | So I 'm sure that confuses him even more at this stage . |
10 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
11 | The proofs which he produced were so convincing that to keep him quiet he was first made Bishop of Exeter and then , when he complained that the diocese 's revenues were inadequate for his family , Bishop of Worcester . |
12 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |
13 | Just in time , Dick developed a viral nasty that made him lethargic . |