Example sentences of "fact he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he had his own office and a considerably larger area of carpet than anyone in Berebury suspected . |
| 2 | In fact he found it very difficult not to jerk the stick forwards for recoveries . |
| 3 | This distinction should be preserved ( even though the Russian verb is not quite square with the English ) , since it belongs to the novel 's overall life-against-logic argument : in theory the student would kill her , but in fact he wo n't . |
| 4 | So that when Von Lemke came to ‘ us ’ as governor and felt himself overwhelmed by ‘ our ’ troubles and scandal ; s , he had no toy-making to turn to , he had nowhere to go — his version of the abiding Dostoevsky extremity — and in fact he went mad . |
| 5 | The mere fact he had been invited to the eight-man special event represented progress . |
| 6 | In fact he bears a vague resemblance to Crocodile Dundee , although his strong upper class English accent , roughened by a liking for Rothman cigarettes , quickly dispelled that image . |
| 7 | In 1947 he was well known as one of the authors — in fact he was the chairman of the group and the principal author and the person in charge of publication — of a report to the Archbishop of Canterbury , now Geoffrey Fisher , on the nature of Catholicity . |
| 8 | Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly . |
| 9 | In fact he said to me ‘ You could be quite useful , you know , you could help me get through to her . ’ |
| 10 | Keegan duly appeared at the press conference to extol his new club and his sponsors , despite the fact he was known not to drink the product himself . |
| 11 | In fact he was not far from being sick . |
| 12 | HERR NORDERN did not feel better the next morning , in fact he felt considerably worse . |
| 13 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 14 | In fact he does n't . |
| 15 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 16 | In fact he hit it 150 yards , the ball pitched , began to spin back and rolled towards the hole , finishing 10 feet away . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact he was really a very quiet and rather reserved man , who preferred to keep in the background rather than hog the limelight . |
| 18 | The fact he can sit in a room with someone who claims to see the spirits of his loved ones around him brings great comfort , not fright . |
| 19 | In fact he was in danger of disappearing completely . |
| 20 | In fact he used to be seen lunching austerely in his favourite vegetarian restaurant on the corner of Leicester Square , where the permitted maximum of five shillings for the price of a meal could only be spent by earnest application . |
| 21 | In fact he 's such a tall strapping chap that he calls his mam Smallfry . |
| 22 | ( She had attacked a man in Aberdeen in the mistaken notion that he was Lloyd George : in fact he was a Baptist minister . ) |
| 23 | In fact he still had the worst — a mare called ‘ Bint Pomona . ’ |
| 24 | In fact he could have been me , except that he had had the initiative to ask the landladies if he could stay cheaper by foregoing the second ‘ B ’ — the breakfast . |
| 25 | In fact he probably stands a round of beers with his mates every now and then on the strength of his unrequited schoolboy romance with a fluffy little classmate who grew up into a sexy , albeit pintsized superstar . |
| 26 | Could that be something to do with the fact he could n't read it ? |
| 27 | Nor were matters helped by the fact he has two very important business associates here whom he 'd guaranteed an excellent day 's shooting . |
| 28 | In fact he was far from satisfied . |
| 29 | In fact he had barred him some three weeks previously in mid-March . |
| 30 | ‘ In fact he 's just a defeatist , a victim of Jewish masochism . |