Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 2 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 3 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 4 | In any event the purchaser will want to know that he is buying the right assets from the right companies . |
| 5 | Certainly the Pentagon knows it 's already under investigation , but Hawkins did n't want anyone to know that he was pointing fingers in certain directions . |
| 6 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 7 | It is good to know that he was thought so highly of and that we have so many friends . |
| 8 | . And then as we were beating you see , inside , through the bushes and all , and a pheasant got up , and we used to shout , , do you see , for them to know that he was coming . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , look ! ’ she whispered in an awed kind of voice , and flicked a glance from the squirrel to Ven , to find that he was looking — at her ! |
| 10 | She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness . |
| 11 | When Allen at last found a crevice secure enough to trust to he looked over to find that he was peering into the little courtyard onto the rain-wet backs of the dejected horses . |
| 12 | However , if he has disclosed that fact so as to indicate that he is transferring to the purchaser only his own possessory title , then he will not be in breach of the condition , section 12(3) . |
| 13 | It was only when I swung to the left and broke free for a moment that I was able to observe that he was wearing my dad 's grey towelling dressing-gown . |
| 14 | He might think it best sometimes to pretend that he was enforcing an old and obsolete statute or a mischievous and silly precedent when he was really ignoring it . |
| 15 | He asked you to pretend that he was staying here and going to the symposium on a daily basis . |
| 16 | She was surprised to see that he was struggling for words — something he had not done since the day two years before when her brother Thomas had been murdered by the English . |
| 17 | She was surprised to see that he was trembling . |
| 18 | It was easy to see that he was running for his job then . |
| 19 | It is good to see that he was remembered so kindly by at least one of his colleagues . |
| 20 | She looked up into his face , anger seething through her , and was surprised to see that he was smiling . |
| 21 | She found that deeply comforting and was mentally able to see that he was carrying her pain and helplessness . |
| 22 | ‘ I said I would think about it , ’ Ven cut in , but she was pleased to see that he was relaxed still , and in no way hostile at her bringing the subject up again . |
| 23 | A FORMER employee of British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield ( formerly Windscale ) goes before an industrial tribunal today to claim that he was forced into resigning from the Sellafield works because he insisted on answers to his allegations that the plant 's laundry was inefficient and turned out ‘ clean ’ overalls that still contained traces of radioactivity . |
| 24 | He started to realize that he was experiencing sensations from parts of his body which he had thought had ceased to function . |
| 25 | She describes another incident where a woman , reduced to tears by a senior colleague , began to realize that he was enjoying seeing her cry . |
| 26 | It took a few seconds after he regained consciousness to realize that he was blindfolded . |
| 27 | There were times when his own belief in himself as a great player could backfire on him if he failed to realize that he was having an off day , and he could look stubborn and bloody-minded as a result . |
| 28 | If this strikes us today as quaint , peculiar in its literalness , we have to remember that he was addressing , through his parents , a nation that prized practicality . |
| 29 | Moreover , the word ‘ notion ’ is not meant to suggest that he is talking of an idea in our minds ; he is concerned rather with that actual feature of good things which is picked out by the word ‘ good ’ . |
| 30 | There is evidence to suggest that he was descended from Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots a century and a quarter before , and from the Zealot commanders at the capture and subsequent siege of Masada . |