Example sentences of "[vb past] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 2 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 3 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 4 | The judge gave Vernage five life sentences and recommended that he serve at least 25 years . |
| 5 | The kangaroo court decided the punishment must fit the crime and ruled that he stay in his cell during the jailhouse comedy . |
| 6 | She realised that he had to be the root of her insecurities , of her inability to believe that anyone could ever love her in return . |
| 7 | Everything about him , from the sleek black head to the jutting strength of his jawline , to the broad , strong , self-satisfied bulk of him at ease in the chair , announced that he knew in the fibre of his being that his touch was anything but abhorrent to her . |
| 8 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 9 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 10 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 11 | Cameron , impressed but evidently rather baffled , minuted that he approved of the proposals and found them ‘ entirely in accord with what we wanted and what I thought was being practised ’ . |
| 12 | To that representative of the religious élite who by his bland statement , ‘ How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God ! , ’ revealed that he counted on a reserved seat , our Lord told the parable of the Great Feast . |
| 13 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 14 | She kept a secret diary which revealed that he spoke on average 3.5 words a day , she told a divorce judge . |
| 15 | He believed that he came from God , revealed God , spoke for God , acted for God , was a channel for God 's grace and salvation . |
| 16 | John Mowlem believed that he descended from the de Moulhams who maintained Corfe Castle for several centuries and to whom had been granted lands near Godlingston . |
| 17 | The Bishop in his reply added that he had in fact consecrated a third pro-Cathedral ; after extensive repairs , St George 's in York had been re-consecrated by him . |
| 18 | The woman also noted that he spoke with a distinctive accent , possibly Irish . |
| 19 | . It seemed that he acted as a receiver of stolen goods … |
| 20 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |
| 21 | Sharpe had no watch , but he estimated that he stayed at the edge of the wood for two hours during which time he counted twenty-two guns and forty-eight supply wagons . |
| 22 | 5–12–1891 The Moderator intimated that he intended for the winter months , instead of the ordinary Sabbath evening services , to devote that time as usual to the teaching of a Bible class . |
| 23 | The Headmaster expressed his concurrence with the suggestion as the Technical School could supply subjects of instruction not dealt with at a Grammar School , and stated that he had under consideration a scheme as to classes and fees having this object in view . " |
| 24 | Lt Cot Hocevar stated that he knew of these plans , but that he considered that Carinthia was not part of Austria . |
| 25 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 26 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 27 | For example , a county GRIST coordinator ( formerly a mathematics teacher ) who claimed that he knew of the Report but had not read it , made the following eloquent and not untypical statement : |
| 28 | Charles Lambe claimed that he knew of some Dissenters who " will not touch either Food or Raiment , that was not bought in the Shop of a Fanatick . |
| 29 | A quick peep at Silas showed that he scowled as if displeased about something . |
| 30 | Referring to the effect of the new deployment on Saddam Hussein 's policy , Bush commented that he hoped for sanctions to work within a two-month period , but that " if this movement of forces is what convinces him [ of the need to comply with UN resolutions ] , so much the better " . |