Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that he hopes they 've been able to reasure the people living nearby , and that the travellers will now quietly leave . |
| 2 | Doreen looked down at her hands , then admitted reluctantly , ‘ If you must know — he told Jean he likes Lucy , and that he hopes she will never leave this place . |
| 3 | ‘ Joey says it sounds O.K. He says to tell you , shamus , that he hopes you collect the reward . ’ |
| 4 | As a user and devotee of Wainwright 's books , I am convinced that he wrote them primarily as works of creative art , for sharing with those of like mind . |
| 5 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 6 | I at once informed Mr Blair of this and I am aware that he wrote you to say that my present attitude was distinctly negative . |
| 7 | That he wrote it in the winter of 1940 – 41 gave an indication of the insecurity which underlay his apparent aloofness . |
| 8 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 9 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
| 10 | Mr Sanchez recalls that on one occasion , Mr Keith Richards , a musician once fond of exotic medication , was so vexed by his hound Caesar 's nocturnal barking that he administered him with a soporific known colloquially as a ‘ mandie ’ . |
| 11 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 12 | We know that he made her write a letter to bring Sir Charles to the moor gate on that sad night . |
| 13 | If pressed , most of us would say that he deepened our understanding of human nature , and that he made us aware that the mind of Man is complex and contradictory . |
| 14 | Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty . |
| 15 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 16 | But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse . |
| 17 | I understand that he made it complete . ’ |
| 18 | Except that he made it ‘ loo-oo-oo-ming ’ . |
| 19 | But I know that he made it very hard for Sheila . |
| 20 | ‘ I am rather surprised that he made it public , but we will be taking it very seriously — have no doubt about that — and it will be raised at the Anglo-Irish Conference meeting in London . ’ |
| 21 | " I remember that year Jimmy telling us that we had black players in South Africa , that they were reasonably good and that he thought they should have the chance to become members , " Bland explained . |
| 22 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 23 | His glance raked her from head to foot before he even moved further and she could see that he thought her very decadent to be in her housecoat at this time in the morning . |
| 24 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 25 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 26 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 27 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 28 | His grin suggested that he thought I 'd trade in my TI notebook for some new whizz-bang offering . |
| 29 | I had an idea that he thought I was someone else . |
| 30 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |