Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were so relieved at the college that they let him keep his job . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | [ 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 . " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 15 | Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What , what what er level of income that he thought he needed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Crawford had lost so much confidence before taking on the play that he decided he must live the part and put everything into it . |
| 22 | Any money that he wanted he had to ask for , or if he wanted to buy anything he had to ask for it . |
| 23 | Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love . |
| 24 | The courtly interpreter of the festival , a Tunisian , after giving him some hashish jam , said to him in a tent that he hoped he had peace of mind . |
| 25 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 26 | about the little boy that they think he 's dead |
| 27 | It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him . |
| 28 | Believing his benefactor to be Miss Havisham , he nourishes a fantasy that she intends him to marry Estella , whom he continues to love passionately , ‘ against reason , against promise , against peace , against hope , against happiness , against all discouragement there could be ’ . |
| 29 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 30 | ‘ Most people are wrong most of the time , ’ he said , with such firmness that she slid him another look , surprised ; he was strong behind his gentleness and hesitancy , she thought — strong in a way that was n't common . |