Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even making allowances for these factors , a person might be insulted if the actor makes it plain by his words or conduct that he holds in contempt those ( including the victim ) who do not share his point of view . |
| 2 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 3 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 4 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 5 | Hugh 's mother , climbing out of her taxi with a zip bag full of baby clothes , heard the laughter and wondered if she should contact Hugh in wherever it was and suggest that he came home . |
| 6 | She could ring Jamie and suggest that he write something for it . |
| 7 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 8 | Afterwards he got in touch , not to sign me but to offer encouragement and say that he liked the album . |
| 9 | I say no , and hope that he does n't realize that I really have no idea . |
| 10 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 11 | being of course , is first of all find your home and while he was n't in a home he was driving the neighbours mad because he 's beginning to get confused and wander about and maintain that he has n't had his dinner when two people have already taken him in lunch , you know and the other problem is erm er er having found him a very nice home , he did n't want to go ! |
| 12 | Some have called him a drunkard and assume that he saw puce poetry instead of pink elephants . |
| 13 | I give the hon. Gentleman the benefit of the doubt and assume that he did not hear what I said , not once but twice , perhaps because of the noise coming from his hon. Friend the Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , seated beside him , who referred to 236 admissions . |
| 14 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 15 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 16 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 17 | He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game . |
| 18 | ‘ He is n't our dog , but he lives next door to us , ’ she explained , ‘ so I suppose I 'd better take charge of him and see that he does n't do any more mischief . ’ |
| 19 | They tiptoe down and see that he 's got it open , all right , but he 's lying there dead . |
| 20 | Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) . |
| 21 | He seems resigned to a shortened climbing career , but content that he 's made it all . |
| 22 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 23 | But suppose that he proceeds in the general direction from where he assumed by voice came and suddenly found himself face to face with a stranger who looked very similar to myself . |