Example sentences of "[pron] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |
| 2 | ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs . |
| 3 | Dennis told me that he lived in North Oxford , but that was geographical hyperbole . |
| 4 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 5 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 6 | Saibol speaks Maa in a way which tells me that he comes from the Kisongo of the Ol Doinyo Lengai , yes ? |
| 7 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I can tell you that he lived at number forty-one I think , yes forty- one if , if you know if you want any confirmation , that is correct . |
| 10 | He covets your practice , and in order to get it he 'll play the same trick on you that he played on me . ’ |
| 11 | and in Le Vilain asnier : ( And through this I wish to show you that he acts without sense or measure who , through pride , acts beyond his nature : nobody should disnature himself . ) |
| 12 | He does not see the different plants like an agriculturalist , nor the medicinal roots like a physician , but everything that he sees with his material eyes he secretly contemplates in his mind through spiritual vision . |
| 13 | The ‘ worrier ’ by contrast , is so concerned he might forget something that he struggles through airports with three huge suitcases and a plethora of hand baggage . |
| 14 | Although comedy came to him easily in the sense that he seems to have made the class laugh at will from a tender age , it is , like everything else , something that he works at and it annoys him when others fail to do so . |
| 15 | Well his got a little one that he uses for work , but his borrowed his boss big one to take his stuff over . |
| 16 | Steve has got one that he played at the last S L Os meeting , it lasts about four minutes it 's as long as the song he ai n't heavy he 's my brother . |
| 17 | and any way went down and answer it and I could hear him talking , erm , you remember he bought this aeroplane back from Americ erm from Australia , this one of and it was Australian Air Force one that he had on Australian 's , erm came back and stayed in England for a little while and then he went back to Australia , just killed himself . |
| 18 | can do that Er yeah can you what what 's what 's the one that he does with the hundred hands up ? ha , ha , ha , ha , ha |
| 19 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 20 | This , he wished it to be understood , was a duty to God incumbent on him personally , one that he couched in the words of the Confiteor : ‘ And I pray to God that you will not stop because of what I have done or what I have failed to do . ’ |
| 21 | Well , chaps it has to be Tony Currie. remember that goal … yes that one that he curled into the corner … who was that against again ? |
| 22 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |
| 23 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 24 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 25 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 26 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
| 27 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 28 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 29 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 30 | It is characteristic of him that he transmitted to us a document which gave the number of the soldiers in the Roman army about 225 B.C. and added the number of the men of military age but not under arms : the document distinguished between Roman citizens and allies , and gave specific figures for the main groups of allies ( 2.23–4 ) . |