Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contradicts and condemns us in our pride , our self-sufficiency , our ethics , our politics , and our religion which , far from being our point of closest access to God , is the house we build in order to hide ourselves from him , to convince ourselves that we have him in our control . |
| 2 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 3 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 4 | Mummy said to me , mummy said to me that I wash him . |
| 5 | When I probed a bit , rather reluctantly she told me that she understood he 'd had an ‘ illness ’ , and was a regular out-patient at a local hospital . ’ |
| 6 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 7 | These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall . |
| 8 | He persuaded himself that they helped him ; but the headaches still came . |
| 9 | I told you that I loved him , that 's God 's truth , I love him and I tell you they might have made such a place just for him . ’ |
| 10 | It said something that she knew he 'd never put in words . |
| 11 | For his work with a host of musicians from Marian McPartland to Ruby Braff he has received many accolades , but one that we know he likes was made in the London Spectator recently : ‘ Tate turned out to be that rarity of rarities , a bass player whose contributions actually made musical sense . |
| 12 | Erm , we are today , going to do the Black Sheep of the Family , erm , because erm , erm , does n't feel that he he 's up to doing the one that he thought he would do this week . |
| 13 | She had to capitulate and admit to herself that she missed him terribly . |
| 14 | Oh , the benison of it , she thought , for she seemed to need comfort now , not only because she was tired after the journey and far away from John , but because she had admitted to herself that she loved him , had let her love sweep over her like a kind of illness , ‘ giving in ’ to flu , conscious only of the present moment . |
| 15 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 16 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 17 | Give him a hug and tell him that you love him . |
| 18 | All you have to do , Laura , is to tell him that you love him , ’ she 'd added , putting her arms around her old friend and giving her a hug . |
| 19 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 20 | If you can see a result If I talk to John Smith and tell him that I know he keeps riding on the pavement at you know , with no lights , it sounds minor , but the old age pensioner who keeps nearly getting missed , it 's very you know upsetting . |
| 21 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 22 | They were to tell him that I loved him … |
| 23 | Maybe it was her way of telling him that she knew he was lying . |
| 24 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 25 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 26 | What would he say if she told him that she fought him because she was afraid that if she did n't she would fall in love with him ? |
| 27 | And even crazier to have told him that she loved him . |
| 28 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 29 | Still she could not bring herself to touch him , until , turning his head , she saw the scar , and without thinking leaned forward to kiss that , a butterfly kiss like his , to show him that she loved him — and his scar . |
| 30 | He probably needs to get lost so often so that his mother will find him and remember to tell him that she loves him . |