Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | worries me that he really ca n't carry on like that . |
| 2 | There is no saying what Maggie Wyllie sees in the insufferably humourless prig , who deludes himself that he is completely self-sufficient , but he represents a challenge to her feminine guile . |
| 3 | Legend has it that he used to angle in the Adige river and that when the waters flooded , many years after his death , they were stopped from breaching the walls of his church by prayers to his memory . |
| 4 | Rumour has it that he has taken up residence in the port of Leith , near enough to Edinburgh but , should matters go wrong , the best place for his departure by land or sea . |
| 5 | Tradition has it that he was one of King Henry VIII 's forest wardens . |
| 6 | Rumour has it that he contracted a venereal disease at some point and sought medical treatment . |
| 7 | At a meeting of local Serbian leaders in Orašac , in mid February , the thirty-six-year-old Djordje Petrović ( Karadjordje ) was asked to lead the rebellion , although legend has it that he twice refused , excusing himself on the ground that his violent temper would make him an unsuitable leader . |
| 8 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 9 | ‘ Gossip has it that he 's a good accountant , keen on music , and henpecked . |
| 10 | He shows me that he is nervous . |
| 11 | Bud Collins , one of America 's leading tennis commentators and writers , who wrote the foreword , assures me that he has seen Wegner prove the point by teaching newcomers from seven to seventy keep a reasonable rally going within two hours of them first picking up a racket . |
| 12 | ‘ He assures me that he can not pay this amount as he has a wife and two children to keep on Army pay . |
| 13 | Where a solicitor realises himself that he has been negligent or his client makes a claim against him on that ground , the client must be told of the circumstances ( if he is not already aware of them ) and be advised to seek independent advice . |
| 14 | He does n't believe his wife 's 92-year-old grandmother , Wendy ( Maggie Smith ) , when she assures him that he used to be Peter Pan . |
| 15 | The parable is as follows : In an occupied country during wartime , a member of the resistance meets a stranger who deeply impresses him , and who assures him that he is on the side of the resistance . |
| 16 | ‘ He assures us that he maintained his dignity despite a lot of verbal encouragement to bare all . ’ |
| 17 | I might argue that a particular capitalist economist is so embedded in the political and economic structure of the society that employs him that he fails to represent adequately the challenge levelled by ‘ political economy ’ to the perspective he purveys , and thus fails to take into account multiple points of view . |
| 18 | The new inspector advises me that he is restricting the loan interest relief to that payable on the Halifax loan on the basis that ‘ the net MIRAS arrangements have been fully utilised by the Halifax loan ’ . |
| 19 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 20 | He manipulates our feelings and views towards characters throughout the book , successfully , which also shows and convinces us that he is a very competent writer and very real . |
| 21 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 22 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 23 | BERNARD Weatherill , Speaker of the House of Commons until his successor is elected on April 27 , tells me that he will not be writing his memoirs — unlike his predecessors Selwyn Lloyd and George Thomas ( now Lord Tonypandy ) . |
| 24 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 25 | AUTHOR Jeffrey Archer tells me that he is still signing his name ‘ Jeffrey Archer ’ in his books , rejecting the easy option available since his peerage of signing just ‘ Archer ’ . |
| 26 | Saibol speaks Maa in a way which tells me that he comes from the Kisongo of the Ol Doinyo Lengai , yes ? |
| 27 | Fairfax tells me that he is a suitor , eager to lay claim to a girl who is now only eleven . |
| 28 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 29 | Mr Summerchild ( who tells me that he read classics at Cambridge ) turned out to be eminently suitable in this respect . |
| 30 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |