Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 2 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 3 | He would drop her , of course , sooner or later — or rather , he would engineer it so that she dropped him . |
| 4 | Some time needs to be spent in conversation so that she feels he desires the total person and not just the body . |
| 5 | And he went to take her by the arm , for he feared that she might fall — only for an even worse horror to grip Sally-Anne , so that she pushed him violently away , quite unable to control herself , stammering , ‘ No — no … ’ |
| 6 | And I 'd sure see you had a lovely time , ’ he went on with almost too much intensity in his voice , so that he feared he might have frightened her off . |
| 7 | The sergeant would go sniffing around so that he showed he knew what you were doing . |
| 8 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 9 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 10 | Sharpe twisted the map round so that it faced him . |
| 11 | This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about . |
| 12 | It coincided with his drawing back from her so that it appeared he was the one to call a halt first . |
| 13 | She told us just now merely that he said he had a gun but you you remember that it is a hand gun . |
| 14 | He puts down something like eight guitar tracks using numerous WEM Copicats and what have you , and it 's only when you hear them all together that you realise he 's assembled this sound that he had in his head . |
| 15 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 16 | Not just that we found him so many years ago . |
| 17 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 18 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 19 | It was only later that he realized he had destroyed a Max Ernst . |
| 20 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
| 21 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 22 | does not come now , now that we need him most . |
| 23 | Where is TODD RUNDGREN now that we need him most ? |
| 24 | ‘ Now that we have him , maybe we can find out who is paying him . |
| 25 | Now that they knew he would be leaving , the literary confraternity had already started to turn their backs on him , and had begun to scan the possible replacements in the current British intellectual mafia . |
| 26 | She felt she could partially excuse his megalomaniac meddlings in her genes now that she knew he was mentally unstable . |
| 27 | I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging . |
| 28 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 29 | She knew now that she loved him , yet , at times , she seemed to hate him . |
| 30 | The prime purpose of John 's nasal operation was remedial , now that he knew he wanted to make his career in ballet . |