Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.

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1 The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
2 The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
3 I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one .
4 This is because this was the dead stock that we sent him .
5 An Amex gold card that I suspect he ca n't use .
6 He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him .
7 ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’
8 I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order .
9 After James II 's death , and during the reign of Anne , Jacobites usually claimed that James Francis Stuart was the rightful heir to the throne , who should succeed his sister : it was not until after the Hanoverian succession that we find him being hailed as James III .
10 According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency .
11 One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market .
12 David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going .
13 If watching plays is so painful for David that he wishes he were somewhere else , then I for one would be glad to take his place .
14 As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness .
15 They were so relieved at the college that they let him keep his job . ’
16 I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting .
17 besides a great many sins that he knew he had done that he could not remember .
18 [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . "
19 There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking .
20 Thresher manager David Newton and assistant John Onanuga are suspended on full pay for ‘ inventing ’ a story that they sold him Champagne at £15.49 and Raffles cigarettes at £1.98 .
21 When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all .
22 Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary .
23 I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has .
24 But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion .
25 What , what what er level of income that he thought he needed .
26 Surprisingly , no Sunday lunch was brought up to him , nor was there any tea , and it was only around three in the afternoon that he realized he had had no visitors since noon .
27 so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ?
28 He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange .
29 Crawford had lost so much confidence before taking on the play that he decided he must live the part and put everything into it .
30 Any money that he wanted he had to ask for , or if he wanted to buy anything he had to ask for it .
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