Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | besides a great many sins that he knew he had done that he could not remember . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Complications coordinator distributed the postcards that he 'd he printed and the S T V voting regulations he was requested to bring on . |
| 8 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 9 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 10 | He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now . |
| 11 | He had won it convincingly , as the judges ' 60–56 , 60–56 , 60–57 scores proved , but such is the tension of the schools finals second only in most young boxers ' eyes to the senior ABA finals that he felt he needed a bit more help . |
| 12 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
| 13 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 14 | He 's aware of concern expressed by Parish Council and he 's going to see them and he will be very happy to come and er speak to us and answer any questions that we wish him to , so I advised him to contact the clerk to make arrangements . |
| 15 | It is precisely because our Lord suffered these things that we recognise him as not only God but human , like us . |
| 16 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 17 | There were a hundred things that he knew he ought to say . |
| 18 | It was strange music , full of strange sounds that he knew he could n't hope to understand . |
| 19 | If your father has a favourite hobby , gather together a few well-chosen gifts that you know he will like and wrap them in a presentation basket . |
| 20 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 21 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Ashdown would be better concentrating on the basic issues that are of concern to the electorate rather than perpetually engaging in imagined card games that he thinks he would like to play on Friday morning . ’ |
| 23 | I reckon he has got a law case on his hands that he thinks he might lose . |
| 24 | ‘ Except for one or two episodes that I suppose he could n't miss , just to try , there was never a chance . |
| 25 | Does the Secretary of State agree that when local democracy does not come up with the results that he wants he abolishes it ? |
| 26 | convey ‘ messages ’ ( wittingly or unwittingly ) by the tone of your voice and the sheer volume of criticism and attention paid to the child 's bad points that you dislike him or her ? |
| 27 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 28 | I look forward to hearing from the hon. Gentleman how he will deal with the complaints that I expect he will receive from his constituents , when he has to explain to those employed at Guy 's hospital why the Labour party 's policies would deny that hospital the opportunity to increase staff pay by £6 a week . |
| 29 | He could see the end coming , and it was just as she 'd said ; the friends he 'd made and lost , and the women that he wished he 'd known better . |
| 30 | Jed had made his selection ; three toys stood out on their own in the middle of the floor , these being the ones that he reckoned he could do without . |